 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 378 pages
...20. Tlus eurious extraet is taken from a treatise on hunting, dedieated to the Earl of Northampton. 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...of Shakspere. As for that of the Court, the testimony, imperfect as it is, is entirely conclusive. " 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,"... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...eharm. Natnre herself was prond of his designs, And ioy'd to wear the dressing of his lines. * • • * Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in onr water yet appear, And make those flights npon the banks of Thames, That did so take Eliza and onr... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 318 pages
...motion of royal favor 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 Eiiza... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...In his well-turned and true-filed lines ; In each of wliich 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... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1851 - 870 pages
...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakspeare. He seems to have felt with Ben Jonson — " Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear." The sight has been realized ; and the "Swan of Avon," somewhat ruffled by the neglect and slights of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 306 pages
...motion of royal favor 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 492 pages
...its associations with Shakspere. His contemporaries 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 480 pages
...motion of royal favor 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 Elizu and our... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...even so the race Of Shakspere's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true piled lines: In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of Ignorance." Ben Jonson, now twenty years of age only, is married, and an... | |
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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! 
