 | 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 - 1821 - 366 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...fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head. GARRICK. To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide... | |
 | Theater - 1821 - 436 pages
...in the author's own words. Yours, §~c. Aug. 12, 1821. HOLLA. STRATFORD ON AVON. " Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream, Of things more than mortal...fairies, by moonlight, dance round his green bed, For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head." GARRICK. I HAD come to Stratford on a poetical pilgrimage.... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. L STRATFORD-ON-AVON. VOL. II. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Thou soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal...fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed. For hallowed the turf is which pillowed his head. GARKICK. To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 416 pages
...distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. VOL. II. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Then soft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakspeare would drenm ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed. For hallowed the turf is which pillowed... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...divide the distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Thou goft flowing Avon, by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal...fairies by moonlight dance round his green bed, For haltow'd the turf is which pillow'd his head. GARRICR. To a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...the Trotters to divide the distracted empire of LITTLE BRITAIN. STRATFORD-ON-AVON. Thon soft flowing: Avon , by thy silver stream Of things more than mortal sweet Shakspeare wonld dream The fairies by moonlight dance ronnd his green bed, For hallow'd the turf is which pillow'd... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 1124 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...would dream ; The fairies by moonlight dance round his greeu bed, For hallow'd the turf is which pillow'd his head. GAKKICK. O a homeless man, who has no... | |
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TO a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial... 
