 | Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 450 pages
...1623 : — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James." On the death of Queen Elizabeth, Chettle, in his England's Mourning Garment, thus reproached Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pages
...Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee on our waters yet appear, And make those nights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." Whatever his powers as an actor were, one thing is clear, that no man ever understood better the correct... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...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 our James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1866 - 320 pages
...Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those slights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James. Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And... | |
 | 1867 - 968 pages
...corpulent sanguinians make me fear." Although Shakspere's verse was described by Ben Jonson as : " Flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James," William Alexander received more substantial rewards than " sov'raa smiles." In 1613, after being gentleman... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...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 James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc d, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were 55 To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! CO Shine forth,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 pages
...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 James.* These princes, then r were taken» were fascinated, with, some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...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 our James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...lifelike reality to which we are strangers. Such briefly were the theatres in which Shakspeare — 1 Made those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James.' Such, also, in the dearth of clubs and coffeehouses, of novels, newspapers, and other means of information,... | |
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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... 
