 | 1857 - 574 lapas
...art alive still, while thy book 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 appear, And make those nights upon the hanks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our Jama... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 lapas
...true-filed lines : In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance, As brandish't at the eyes of Ignorance. appeare, And make those flights upon the baukes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 832 lapas
...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 baiikes of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James !... | |
 | 1858 - 516 lapas
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lauce, As brandished 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 of Thames That so did take Eliza, and our James... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1858 - 512 lapas
...true-filed liues ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished 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 of Thames That so did take Eliza, aud our James... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1859 - 396 lapas
...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 in our waters yet appear, And make those nights upon the banks of Thames That did so take Eliza and our James." When the two monarchs under... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 lapas
...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 water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 874 lapas
...reference to the Avon exactly fulfilled these conditions. The lines were as follows : Sweet Swan of Avon I What a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appeare And make those flights upon the banks of Tliamet That did so take Eliza and our James ? To... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 lapas
...•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 James !' Elizabeth could hardly, as... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1861 - 386 lapas
...dropped tears over his new-made grave at Stratford, on the river Avon, in his mourafulness he sung— " Sweet swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear! But stay ! I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there: Shine forth, thou... | |
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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! 
