 | 1860 - 632 trang
...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 - 1860 - 394 trang
...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... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1862 - 310 trang
...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 a sight it were, To see thee...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 360 trang
...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 - 1864 - 394 trang
...know indeed from one of his contemporaries, and no one can question what is sung by Ben Jonson:— " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James." But the instances of her manifestation of this interest come to us we know not whence, far as they... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 trang
...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...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,... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 trang
...into being scenes unknown before, And, passing Nature's bounds, was something more. CHURCHILL. III. SWEET Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were, To see...those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did please Eliza and our James. BEN JONSON. ON SWIFT'S " GULLIVER'S TRAVELS." HERE learn from moral truth... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 trang
...first conquest of the Queen. That he did captivate her, is told us in Ben Jonson's poem just quoted: " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee...banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James ! " King John, King Richard the Second, King Richard the Third, A Midsummer-Nighfs Dream, and the original... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 92 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 trang
...true-filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. but a kindred sound to move, ! 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 waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James... 
