| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...his well-turned, and 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...stay — I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and make a constellation there: * Ben, not satisfied with allowing his friend all natural powers, fives... | |
| Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...shine* In his well-torned and 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...yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thame% That so did take Eliza, and our James! But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...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,...Shine forth, thou star of poets, and with rage, Or inBuencc, chide, or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, bath mourn'd like... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 346 pages
...! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James !...and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, hide, or cheere the drooping Stage ; Which, since thy... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 348 pages
...! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appeare, And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James !...and made a Constellation there! Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage, Or influence, hide, or cheere the drooping Stage ; Which, since thy... | |
| William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...shines In his weli-torhed and true-filed lines ; In each of which he seems to shake a lance Asbrandish'd at the eyes of ignorance. Sweet Swan of Avon, what...flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Euza, and our James! But stay ; I see thee in the hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation there... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pages
...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-Nights Dream, and the original... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...sarcasm, and restless malignity.'' Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks...our James ! But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there ! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage, Or influence,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...contemporary notoriety ; for Jonson, in his celebrated eulogy, thus apostrophises his departed friend : — " Sweet swan of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee...of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James." That Eh'zabeth « gave him many gracious marks of her favour," has been mentioned by Rowe as a matter... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...contemporary 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...banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James. The latter monarch was present at the representation of many of his pieces, and is stated by Lintot... | |
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