 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Warwickshire (England) - 1857 - 210 pages
...only a few brief quotations. It was Ben Jonson who styled our poet the " Sweet Swan of Avon" — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1 " The lines of Gray, in his " Progress of Poesy," have been much and deservedly admired : — " Far... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...notoriety ; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...the banks of Thames, That so did take .Eliza and our .Tames. The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pages
...Ben Jonson that she justly appreciated the dramatist who was the brightest ornament of her reign ; " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames Thai so did take Eliza and our James !"-''' " To the Memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...which cannot be reconciled with the theory of the actor's non-authorship of the plays in the Folio: — Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare. Of course this seems to identify the actor with the author, for such an expression as occurs... | |
 | Brittany (France) - 1900 - 738 pages
...nature's family. Yet must I not give nature ail ; thy art, M y gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon thé banks of Thames, That did so take Eliza, and our... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...Jonson's "To the Memory of William Shakespeare," in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works (1623): "Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were / To see...make those flights upon the banks of Thames, / That did so take Eliza, and our James!" (lines 71-74). 9.163 (188:25). Composition of place. Ignatius Loyola... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...frame, Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. (1. 50-59) 46 hing, to be nothing long; To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose. To use g (1. 66-67) HelP; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBS; PoEL-2; SeCP; SeCV-1; TrGrPo To William Camden 47 Camden,... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. Sweet Swan of Auon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights vpon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our lames! But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...true-filed Unes; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. fearful flight, Make war with him that climb'd unto...their young's defence? For shame, my liege, make th Ri™ and our James! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there:... | |
 | Andrew Murphy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 248 pages
...favourably against European literary figures both contemporary and classical. The subsequent reference to 'those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James' reinforces the notion that Shakespeare is the poet of the British state, of two monarchs and four nations,... | |
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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... 
