 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pages
...dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, Still I'll be Vicar of Bray, sir. ANONYMOUS. Cumnor THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now naught was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 582 pages
...readers of Kenilworth. Scott tells us that its music haunted him as a boy. The first stanza runs : The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Of this Lewes gives alternative versions, one literal and one free :— The nightly dews commenced... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...seated ; placed himself. cruel fate. The ' labour harsh ' in the next line. - 65. that pass there by. 'The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew there by.' — Julius Mickle. Milton has ' that passed that way' (Par. Lost, Bk. IV, 1. 177) to express... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1891 - 816 pages
...moan All lovers young, all lovers must Consign to thee, and come to dust. SHAKESPEARE. 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 pages
...realm, — that halfmystic idea that consecrated what it touched ; the moonlight, as it were, which "Silvered 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1891 - 384 pages
...to dust. 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 the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1892 - 518 pages
...suggestion. Walter Scott speaks of the verse of a ballad by Mickle which haunted his boyhood ; it is this : The dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet...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 Black - 1893 - 460 pages
...Kenilworth, were haunting her brain, it is as likely as not that these were the familiar lines — " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby ". But perhaps it was just as well that she had not encountered the ghost of poor Amy Robsart. CHAPTER... | |
 | 1895 - 850 pages
...it had over my own mind as a schoolboy before I had read the powerful romance to which it gave rise. 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. The words are simple and few... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...will I hear him speak! I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought, In troth I'm like to greet! CUMNOR HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies— The sounds of busy life were still— Save an unhappy lady's... | |
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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. 
