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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! "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 8
edited by - 1858
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Shakespere's garden; or, The plants and flowers named in his works described ...

Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pages
...tombe ; And art alive still, while thy booke 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 appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James ! But...
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History of William Shakespeare, Player and Poet: With New Facts and Traditions

Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 pages
...And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed lines: In each of which ho seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight...
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Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; with a record of the tercentenary ...

Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 pages
...in his issne ; even so the race Of Shakspere's mind, and manners, brightly shines In his well-toned 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...
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Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: A History of the Various ...

James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 170 pages
...towards the end is a couplet with the epithet which has become an universal synonym for the poet — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare." But that which concerns us now, is, that it is in the commendatory verses published...
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The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works ...

James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...which cannot be reconciled with the theory of the actor's non-authorship of the plays in the Folio: — Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare. Of course this seems to identify the actor with the author, for such an expression...
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Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses

Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...Jonson's "To the Memory of William Shakespeare," in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works (1623): "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...
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Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare

James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 pages
...the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned and true-filed line: In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. (H&S 8:392) This is Shakespeare new forged on Jonson's anvil. It is a Shakespeare who, like Jonson,...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...frame, Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. (1. 50-59) 46 hing, to be nothing long; To pervert truth, to ride it for waters yet appear, (1. 66-67) HelP; JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBS; PoEL-2; SeCP; SeCV-1; TrGrPo To William...
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African Literatures in the Eighties

Dieter Riemenschneider, Frank Schulze-Engler - 1993 - 316 pages
...have wits to read, praise to give Of Marechera 's mind and manners In his well turned and true filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. First published in TSO TSO Vol. 1 , No. 1 . Ursula A. Barnett South African Literature of the Eighties...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...shines In his well-turned and true-filed Unes; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd day waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Ri™ and our...
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