 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!  De Quincey's Writings - Page 13by Thomas De Quincey - 1850Full view - About this book
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...as well as he pleased Elizabeth ; that he ia popular with the Stuart as well as the Tndor :— •' Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - London (England) - 1853 - 352 pages
...dropped tears over his new-made grave at Stratford, on the river Avon, in his mournfulness 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. n't : and now farewell, Till half an hour hence. Per in our water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...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 water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and... | |
 | Edwin Lees - Dramatists, English - 1854 - 108 pages
...FEINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E.ADAMS. 1854. [SECOND EDITION.] STRATFORD AND THE HAUNTS OF SHAKESPEAEE. " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear!" BARE BEN JONSOH. BEAUTIFUL as is the situation of the town of Stratford,... | |
 | Villemain (M.) - Classical literature - 1854 - 410 pages
...amitié avec eux et 1. New Particulars regarding the works of Shakspeare, from J. Payne Collier, 1836. 2. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandishM at the eyes of ignorance. N(> > = in our water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take EHza, and... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 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... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...its associations with Shakspere. His conteraporarie 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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