...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...of Thames , That so did take Eliza, and our James. d'autres lettrés du temps, entre autres le docteur Dorme, célèbre par l'amertume de ses satires....

...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, on the banks of the Warwickshire...

...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 our James...

...Lost,' containing as it does in every line the evidence of being a youthful work, was very early one of those " Flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza." * Raleigh is so called by Spenser. VOL. I. BEN JONSON'S MOTHEE. IN Hartshorn Lane, near Charing Cross,...

...positively told by Ben Jonson in his elegy on " The Swan of Avon"— " What a sight it were. To see thee on our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OCR JAMES !"• Hooker was the favorite vernacular author of James; and his earliest inquiry, on his...

...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandishM at the eyes of ignorance. N(> > = water yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take EHza, and our...

...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...the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our Jame« !" So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, " To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William...

...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...And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That did so take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized...

...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...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1 " The lines of Gray, in his " Progress of Poesy," have been much and deservedly admired : — " Far...

...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...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized him, we may be sure that Shakspeare's...