 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 pages
...And such wert thou ! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 pages
...his well-torned and true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 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:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...•which Queen Elizabeth and her successor King James entertained of the genius of Shakespeare : ' 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 so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 pages
...In his well-turned and truc-filed'lincs ; 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... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 pages
...paid to his popularity, as well as to his merit, a tribute, after the death of the great dramatist. ' Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make these flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-torned [ @ 0 lanct, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance." Using an authority as ancient as the human imagination,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...motion of royal favour towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims— 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 Jama.... | |
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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! 
