 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pàgines
...Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee on our waters yet appear, And make those nights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." Whatever his powers as an actor were, one thing is clear, that no man ever understood better the correct... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pàgines
...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 ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | 1866 - 320 pàgines
...Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those slights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James. Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And... | |
 | 1867 - 968 pàgines
...corpulent sanguinians make me fear." Although Shakspere's verse was described by Ben Jonson as : " Flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James," William Alexander received more substantial rewards than " sov'raa smiles." In 1613, after being gentleman... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 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 ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc d, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pàgines
...ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were 55 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 ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! CO Shine forth,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1870 - 290 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.* These princes, then r were taken» were fascinated, with, some of Shakspeare's dramas. In Elizabeth... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pàgines
...lifelike reality to which we are strangers. Such briefly were the theatres in which Shakspeare — 1 Made those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James.' Such, also, in the dearth of clubs and coffeehouses, of novels, newspapers, and other means of information,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pàgines
...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 ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pàgines
...lifelike reality to which we are strangers. Such briefly were the theatres in which Shakspeare — ' Made those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James.' Such, also, in the dearth of clubs and coffee-houses, of novels, newspapers, and other means of information,... | |
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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... 
