 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 páginas
...•which Queen Elizabeth and her successor King James entertained of the genius of Shakespeare : ' 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... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 páginas
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 páginas
...truc-filed'lincs ; 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 waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 páginas
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. CH. Good my lord of Lancaster, I am not here against your fa waters yet appeare, And make those flights upon the baiikes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 páginas
...paid to his popularity, as well as to his merit, a tribute, after the death of the great dramatist. ' Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make these flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 páginas
...motion of royal favour 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 Jama.... | |
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 168 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 páginas
...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 waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 páginas
...know indeed from one of his contemporaries, and no one can question what is sung by Ben Jonson:— " 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... | |
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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! 
