 | Thomas Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 386 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As wand'ring... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids.with fearful glance, Avoid the ;mcicnt moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the me.rry dance, Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly hall ; For ever, since that dreary hour, Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall'. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As wandering... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...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...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigb'd, And pensive wept the countess" fall, As .wandering... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...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...Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As wandering... | |
 | 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... | |
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The oaks 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 spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village... 
