 Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallow'd the turf is which pillow'd his head.  Palaestra - Page 2341901Full view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1813 - 342 pages
...&L Song LIII. — Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream. Garrick. Set by Dr. Arne. Larghetto. Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal, thy Shakspeare would dream, would ins dream, would dream, thy Shakspeare would dream: The fairies,... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Bath (England) - 1819 - 398 pages
...beautifully and poetically described by the inimitable GARKICK, in honour of our immortal bard :— Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal sweet SIIAKSPEARE would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed. For hallow'd the turf... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...divide the distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head.... | |
 | 1830 - 192 pages
...Can for himself, and all his tribe Swear, as I may for one. THOU SOFT FLOWING AVON. By Mr. Garrick. Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal our Shakspeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallow'd the turf... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...the best and most vigorous of all his stage performances. A few elegant stanzas deserve to survive : "Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal, sweet Shakspeare would dream ; The fairies, by moonlight, dance round his green bed, Рor hallowed the turf... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...best and most vigorous of all his stage performances. A few elegant stanzas deserve to survive : " Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal, sweet Shakspeare would dream; The fairies, by moonlight, dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...with the actual world ; and thither shall pilgrims congregate, from all lands, in all coming time. " Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal sweet Shakespeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 482 pages
...of the Lambs and the Trotters to divide the distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakspeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallow'd the turf... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1848 - 550 pages
...the Lambs and the Trotters | to divide the distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Thou soft.flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakspeare would dream ; The farries by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallow'd the turf... | |
 | Walter Percival - Annuals, American - 1848 - 382 pages
...with the actual world; and thither shall pilgrims congregate, from all lands, in all coming time. " Thou soft-flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal, sweet Shukspeare would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf... | |
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