 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 532 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 tbc sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...cheerless o'er her darkling region stray, Till Reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. MALL. 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... | |
 | Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...Titania, some time of the night." t " The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this," &c. J " 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." — MICKLE. " The first stanza... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...impression made upon Sir Walter Scott, in early life, by the first stanza,* the world is probably * " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." indebted for Kenilworth. Mr. Chambers says that of this ballad an imperfect, altered, and corrected... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...speaks of the verse of an old ballad which haunted his boyhood ; it is this: The dews of night began to fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. This verse we will rearrange as a translator would rearrange it : The nightly dews commenced to fall... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 pages
...that half-mystic idea that consecrated what it touched ; the moonlight, as it were, which " Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Why, then, did the English endure the everlasting Chancellor ? The fact is, that Lord Eldon's rule... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...speaks of the verse of an old ballad which haunted his boyhood ; it is this : The dews of night began to fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. This verse we will rearrange as a translator would rearrange it : The nightly dews commenced to fall... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...speaks of the verse of an old ballad which haunted his boyhood ; it is this : The dews of night began to fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. This verse we will rearrange as a translator would rearrange it: The nightly dews commenced to fall... | |
 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...the germ of Kenilworth, of which he used as a boy to be continually repeating the first verse, — " The dews of summer night did fall— The moon, sweet...of Cumnor hall, And many an oak that grew thereby ; " — in the lays of Tasso, Ariosto, &c., he laid up so much of the food of future romance, and where... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...fell ; though secret was the blow, Unknown the hand that laid the tyrant low. CUMNOR HALL.* BY MICKLE. THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. • Sir Walter Scott's admiration of this ballad induced him to found, on the same incidents, the popular... | |
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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. 
