Wo was the hour— for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid... The Waverley novels - Page 12by sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1875Full view - About this book
| Sir Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 358 pages
...tragedy the «subject of a beautiful elegy, called Cumnor-Hall, which concludes with these lines : The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor-Hall. And many a traveller has sigh'd, And pensive mourn'd that lady's fall, As wandering onward... | |
| Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...taken from Cough's Camden, it is stated that a monument was erected to her memory in St. Mary's Church. And in that manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour • Hare spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. Curonor Hall. The apparition was said to appear in the form of... | |
| Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...were shattei'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — lor never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen. And in that manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball, For ever since thit dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids.with fearful glance, Avoid the... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...were shatter VI on the green ; Woe was the hour, for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen. And, in that manor, now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly hall ; For ever, since that dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...were shatter'd on the green; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless countess e'er was seen. And in that manor now no more Is cheerful feast and...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigb'd, And pensive wept the countess" fall, As .wandering onwards they 've espied The haunted towers... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless countess e'er was seen. And in that manor now no more Is cheerful feast and...sprightly ball; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirit* haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 434 pages
...tragedy the subject of a beautiful elegy, called Cumnor-Hall, which concludes with these lines: — The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor-Hftll. And many a traveller has sigli'd, And pensive mourn'd thai lady's fall, As wandering... | |
| High life - 1827 - 444 pages
...construction that could be put upon it. CHAPTER VIII. " The village maids with fearful glance, Avoid the ivy moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor-hall. And many a traveller has sigh'd, And pensive mourn'd that lady's fall, As journeying on... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...that, dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumuor Hall. Tho village maids, with fearful glance,' Avoid me afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike ; Alike reserved Cumuor Hall, Full many a traveller baa sighed, And pensive wept the Countess* fall, As wandering onwards... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen f And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and...many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept tlie Countess1 fall, As wand'ring onwards they've espied The haunted towers of Curauor Hall. ABBOTSFORD,... | |
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