 | David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...of Avon." Jonson, as is said, referring to these complimentary passages, introduces these lines : " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And mark those flights upon the banks of Thames, That did so take Eliza and our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. them tame, and know their natures.— Farewell, monsieur : I waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...of the first to bring forward the plays of Shakespeare. He seems, to have felt with Ben Jonson — " Sweet Swan of Avon '. what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear." The sight has been realized ; and the " Swan of Avon," somewhat ruffled by the neglect and slights... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pages
...spot, in retirement and in the society of a beloved daughter, in the hist years * Ben Jonson : — And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James ! of his too short life. Immediately after his death a monument was erected over his grave, which may... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 472 pages
...Ben Jonson in his elegy on " The Swan. of Avon"— " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES !"• Hooker was the favorite vernacular author of James; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...Ben Jonson in his Elegy on " The Swan of Avon "— " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES * !" Hooker was the favourite vernacular author of James; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...Elizabeth and James were conceived. The dramatic entertainments — Shakspere's especially — • " those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James," — were open to all the world; and the great showed their good sense in cherishing those wonderful... | |
 | Spencer Hall - 1841 - 48 pages
...was not until the reign of George the Second that the public took a strong interest in him, who made Those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James! And if we examine the dramatic literature of each period we may be convinced of the melancholy truth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...; for Ben Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — Sweet swun of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks ofThames, The latter monarch was present... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 pages
...Jonson in his Elegy on "The Swan of Avon." — - " What a sight it were, To see thee on our waters yet appear ; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and OUR JAMES ! " * Hooker was the favourite vernacular author of James ; and his earliest inquiry, on his arrival... | |
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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! 
