 | William Howitt - 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."... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pages
...wert thou. Looke how the father's face Lives in Ids issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's minde, and manners brightly shines In his well-turned, and...: In each of which, he seems 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... | |
 | 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 t But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pages
...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. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those nights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...his issue, even so, the race Of Shakespeare's minde, 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. To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...his issue, even so, the race Of Shakespeare's minde, 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. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Howitt - 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."... | |
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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! 
