 | 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 in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1 " The... | |
 | 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 in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames Thai so did take Eliza and our James !"-'''... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...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 so did take Eliza and our James." When... | |
 | 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 in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take .Eliza and our .Tames. The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 386 pages
...COLLEGE, OXFORD. IN riETEEN YOLTTMES. VOL. II. LONDON : HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1857. Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yec appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. * * * • * Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those nights upon the hanks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our Jama... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...the race Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines In his well-torned and true-filed lines : }m ; baukes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...the race Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines In his well-torned and true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't...waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the baiikes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...his well-torned and true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish' t . A Judas ! HOL. Not Iscariot, sir, — Judas, I am,...Machabajus dipt, is plain Judas. BmoN. A kissing trai baukes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere Advanc... | |
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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! 
