 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pàgines
...ignoranee. Swect Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yct 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 Advane'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pàgines
...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 James ! But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...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. The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated by Lintot... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 390 pàgines
...of Avon ;" 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 ! The lines occur in the poem entitled " To the memory of my beloved the Author Mr. William Shakespeare,... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1846 - 582 pàgines
...lines : " 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."* * Besides, it is so stated, expressly, in the already-mentioned writing of Southampton's. FalstafFs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pàgines
...ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make ghty courage, Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; Not fearing death, n ! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a consteUation there : Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Villemain (M., Abel-François) - 1847 - 408 pàgines
...Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight il were ïo see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flighls upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James. » Quoique attaqué souvent par les allusions de Ben Johnson et de Fletcher, il vivait en amitié avec... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 368 pàgines
...Northampton. Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it wore 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 ! and the Merry Wives of Windsor, written as early as 1593, is said on very fair authority to have... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pàgines
...conclusive. " 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," is no vague homage from Jonson to the memory of his " beloved friend ;" but the record of a fact. The... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 302 pàgines
...exclaims, ' Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee ia our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James,' These princes, then, were taken, were fascinated, with some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth the... | |
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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... 
