 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...side, And burst — low bow'd her listless head, And down she sunk, and died. MICKLE. CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | 1831 - 372 pages
...acquaintance with the history was through the medium of one of Mickle's ballads, or elegies, commencing— " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvct'd the walls of Cuinnor Hull, And many an oak that grew thereby." Sir Walter quotes the entire... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hill, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...e force of which is not even now entirely ent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - 1835 - 792 pages
...Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sighed, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As wandering onwards they 've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall ! Elizabeth proposed to Dudley, Mary queen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 564 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. Tlie dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor-hall, And many an oak that grew thereby .2 Mickle. FOUR apartments, which... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 454 pages
...moonlight nights ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza — ' The dews of summer light did fall — The Moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.' " I have thought it worth while to preserve these reminiscences of his companions at the time, though... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 318 pages
...moonlight nights ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza : — ' The dews of summer light did fall — The Moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, _ And many an oak that grew thereby. I have thought it worth while to preserve these reminiscences... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 pages
...especially in the moonlight nights ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza — ' The dews of summer night did fall — The Moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby/ " I have thought it worth while to preserve these reminiscences of his companions at the time, though... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 pages
..."especially in the moonlight nights; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza — ' The dews of summer night did fall — The Moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumuor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.' " I have thought it worth while to preserve these... | |
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THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet Regent of the sky!) Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. 
