 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...In his well turned and true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 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... | |
 | Edwin Lees - Dramatists, English - 1854 - 108 pages
...FEINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E.ADAMS. 1854. [SECOND EDITION.] STRATFORD AND THE HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEAEE. " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear!" BARE BEN JONSOH. BEAUTIFUL as is the situation of the town of Stratford, on the banks of the... | |
 | Villemain (M.) - Classical literature - 1854 - 410 pages
...amitié avec eux et 1. New Particulars regarding the works of Shakspeare, from J. Payne Collier, 1836. 2. 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. d'autres... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...In his well-turned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandishM and brother water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take EHza, and our... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...before his time, is deeply interesting. That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself: " 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 did so take Eliza and our James." When... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...its associations with Shakspere. His conteraporarie connected his fame with his native river : — " 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 Jame« !" So... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...and manners brightly shines In his well torned,* and true-filed lines : In each of which, he seems to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance....make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That BO did take Eliza, and our James 1 But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a Constellation... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...minde, and manners brightly shines In his well-turned, and true-filed lines : In each of which, he seems to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance....see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those nights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...In his well-tornSd and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. 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 ! But... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seems to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were That so did take Eliza, and our James I But stay, I see thee... | |
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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! 
