 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 532 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 tbc sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard... | |
 | Morbida - 1854 - 196 pages
...Titania, some time of the night." t " The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this," &c. J " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." — MICKLE. " The first stanza especially had a peculiar species of enchantment for the youthful ear... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...impression made upon Sir Walter Scott, in early life, by the first stanza,* the world is probably * " 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." indebted for Kenilworth. Mr.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1855 - 522 pages
...realm — that half-mystic idea that consecrated what it touched ; the moonlight, as it were, which " Silver'd 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...boyhood ; it is this: The dews of night began to fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...boyhood ; it is this : The dews of night began to fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...boyhood ; it is this : The dews of night began to fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls 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... | |
 | 1861 - 1050 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not eptircly gone even in age) in Mickle's stanza, — " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many nn oak that grew thereby." Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...fell ; though secret was the blow, Unknown the hand that laid the tyrant low. CUMNOR HALL.* BY MICKLE. 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. • Sir Walter Scott's admiration... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...first verse, — " 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 ; " — in the lays of Tasso, Ariosto, &c., he laid up so much of the food of future romance, and where... | |
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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. 
