 | 1860 - 634 pages
...that they took with the people, and we have Ben Jonson's testimony that they took with the court. ' Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James !' The account-books of the revels at court between the years 1588 and 1604, which would vouch to Shakspeare's... | |
 | Charles Knight - Dramatists, English - 1860 - 576 pages
...associations with Shakspere. His contemporaries connected his fame with his native river : — " Sweet swan nf Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James I" So wrote Jonson in his manly lines, ' To the Memory of my Beloved, vhe Author Mr. William Shakespeare,... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...took with the people, and we have Ben Jouson's testimony that they took with the court. ' Sweet Bwnn of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters...flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza aud our James !' The account-books of the revels at court between the years 1588 and 1004, which would... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Authors, English - 1860 - 394 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...And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That did so take Eliza and our James." When the two monarcha under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 pages
...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...our James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage, Or influence,... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Dramatists, English - 1861 - 140 pages
...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 James !...and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage ; Which, since thy... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...In his well-turned and 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...our James ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there : — Shine forth, thou star of poets ; and with rage Or influence,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 pages
...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...the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our Jama. These princes, then, were taken, were fascinated, with some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 pages
...In his well-turned and true-filed lines: In each of which ho seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James! Bnt stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, then... | |
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pages
...! 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...and made a constellation there ! Shine forth thou Starre of Poets \ and with rage Or influence chide ; or cheere the drooping stage ; Which since thy... | |
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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... 
