 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...In his well-torned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As braudish'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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1858 - 516 pages
...In his well-turned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lauce, As brandished 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Books - 1858 - 512 pages
...In his well-turned aud true-filed liues ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished 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, aud our James... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Dwellings - 1859 - 396 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 nights upon the banks of Thames That did so take Eliza and our James." When... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 874 pages
...reference to the Avon exactly fulfilled these conditions. The lines were as follows : Sweet Swan of Avon I What a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare And make those flights upon the banks of Tliamet That did so take Eliza and our James ? To the uninitiated ' the swan of Avon ' would... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 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... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...that they took with the people, and we have Ben Jonson's testimony that they took with the court. ' 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 !' The... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...took with the people, and we have Ben Jouson's testimony that they took with the court. ' Sweet Bwnn 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 aud our James !' The... | |
 | Charles Knight - Dramatists, English - 1860 - 576 pages
...associations with Shakspere. His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river : — " Sweet swan nf 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 I" So... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Great Exhibition - 1861 - 386 pages
...dropped tears over his new-made grave at Stratford, on the river Avon, in his mourafulness he sung— " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear! But stay ! I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there: Shine forth,... | |
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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! 
