 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1842 - 294 pages
...show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe ; He was not of an age, but for all time. • - * * * * * 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...ontemporary notoriety; for 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 : Anil make those flights upon the hanks of Thames, That to did tal» Eliza, and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 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 tlights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and oui James... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind, and manners, brightly shines In his well-torned 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 waters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 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 nights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind, and manners, brightly shines In his well-torned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lanee, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignoranee. Swect Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned and true tiled Z g g g@` P cMg f K brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance.' Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind, and manners, brightly shines In his well-torned eseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader. brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...even so the race Of Shakspearc's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned and true filed ould, Kendall and Lincoln brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-torned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to...shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. And the like idea is finely expressed in those commendatory verses On worthy Master Shakspeare and... | |
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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! 
