 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pagine
...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 monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pagine
...in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-tornSd and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to...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 star of poets,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pagine
...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...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under whom Shakspeare lived admired and patronized him, we may be sure that Shakspeare's... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 210 pagine
...only a few brief quotations. It was Ben Jonson who styled our poet the " Sweet Swan of Avon" — " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James 1 " The lines of Gray, in his " Progress of Poesy," have been much and deservedly admired : — " Far... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pagine
...notoriety ; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...the banks of Thames, That so did take .Eliza and our .Tames. The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pagine
...Ben Jonson that she justly appreciated the dramatist who was the brightest ornament of her reign ; " Sweet Swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames Thai so did take Eliza and our James !"-''' " To the Memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pagine
...In his well-torned and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As braudish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon, what...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 star of poets ;... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 pagine
...And such wert thou ! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well-turned...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... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pagine
...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 - 1860 - 576 pagine
...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,... | |
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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! 
