He again paced the room in silence, stopped, filled and drank a cup of wine, as if to compose the agitation of his mind ; and muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow, Waverly Novels - Page 89by Walter Scott - 1864Full view - About this book
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 412 pages
...in his train — demands concealment of this ohscure marriage — and besides I will not lend her mj arm to climb to her chair of state , that she may...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 - Great Britain - 1821 - 330 pages
...scorn?—that were indeed a masterpiece of courtlike art!—Let me but once be her counsel-keeper—let her confide to me a secret, did it but concern 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... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1821 - 310 pages
...the robbery of a linnet's nest, and, fair Countess, thou art mine own." He again paced the room i- silence, stopped, filled, and drank a cup of wine,...moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor-hall, • And many an oak that grew thereby. JWckle. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western... | |
| Robert Laneham - English drama - 1821 - 158 pages
...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 moon, sweet...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 - 332 pages
...for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow,? he left the apartment. bw il.i .noil . i >-f.> CHAPTER VI. *'•,. The dews of summer night did fall,...moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Gumnor-hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Mickk. 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... | |
| 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 590 pages
...sweetest and best revenge for her former scorn ? —that were indeed a masterpiece of courtlike art!—Let me but once be her counsel-keeper —let her confide...CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The iiiiinii, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor-hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.... | |
| 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
...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 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... | |
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