 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 428 pages
...Shakespeare the " sweet swan of Avon ;" Sweet swan of Avon 1 what a sight it were To see thee in our water * yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so dirl take Eliza and our James ! The lines occur in the poem entitled " To the memory of my beloved... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 596 pages
...Ben Jonson's well-known lines: " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."* * Besides, it is eo stated, expressly, in the already-mentioned writing of Southampton's. FulstnfPs... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 588 pages
...the poet, and took great pleasure iu his compositions, is proved by Ben Jouson's well-knownlines: " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks or Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."*... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - Literature - 1846 - 408 pages
...regarding thé works of Shakspeare, from J. Payne Collier. 1836. 1 « Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight il were To see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon thé banks of Thames, Tbat so did take Mi/», and our James. » Quoique attaqué souvent par les allusions... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 582 pages
...the poet, and took great pleasure in his compositions, is proved by Ben Jonson'swell-kuown lines : " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James."*... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble...grown to credit by the wars ; Not fearing death, n ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a consteUation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 8 9 water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thamee That so did take Eliza and our James... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - Literature - 1847 - 408 pages
...Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight il were ïo see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flighls upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James. » Quoique attaqué souvent par les allusions de Ben Johnson et de Fletcher, il vivait en amitié avec... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 812 pages
...His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river : — " Sweet swan of Avon, what a eight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make tliofte flights upon the bankfi ofr Thames, That so did take Eliza and out Jam« !" So wrote Jonsoh... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 378 pages
...20. Tlus eurious extraet is taken from a treatise on hunting, dedieated to the Earl of Northampton. Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! and the Merry Wives of Windsor, written as early as 1593, is said on very fair authority to have... | |
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Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James... 
