 | Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...modernized, and from that, the present excerpt has been made which is now presented to the reader : — CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall, The...of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And miny an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 330 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. 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. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western... | |
 | Hugh Usher Tighe - Cumner - 1821 - 100 pages
...to the poor has been substituted in lieu of it. • Bibl. Topog. Brit.— Lyson's Berkshire. JL HE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver'd the walls of Cumner Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, (The sounds... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 412 pages
..., « Now for a close heart , and an open and unruffled brow, » he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. 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. Miekle. FOUR apartments , which... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 608 pages
...heart, and an open aad unruffled brow,' he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. The dewi of summer niglit did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor-hnll, And many an oak that grew thereby. MICKLE. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western... | |
 | Women - 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
...the author, the force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The...sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hill, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 564 pages
...the author, the 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 recent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 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 regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby/ " I have thought it worth while... | |
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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. 
