...eharm. Natnre herself was prond of his designs, And ioy'd to wear the dressing of his lines. * • • * Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in onr water yet appear, And make those flights npon the banks of Thames, That did so take Eliza and onr...

...motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims, " 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 Eiiza...

...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakspeare. He seems to have felt with Ben Jonson — " Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear." The sight has been realized ; and the "Swan of Avon," somewhat ruffled by the neglect and slights of...

...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 flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our...

...his noble poem, " To the Memory of my beloved Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us 7 " "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...

...motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims, ' 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 Elizu and our...

...motion of royal favor towards Shakspeare. Now he, in words which leave no room for doubt, exclaims, ' 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...

...Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To sse thse in our waters yct appear, And make those ilights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James !" So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, " To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author. Mr. William Shakspere,...

...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...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1" Bui JOMSOH. "The Yorkshire Tragedy," and "The Merry Devil of Edmonton," two pieces that many critics...

...of Elizabeth and James were conceived. The dramatic entertainments — Shakspere's especially — " those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James," — were open to all the world ; and the great showed their good sense in cherishing those wonderful...