 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 720 pages
...monarch. The genius of the mighty minstrel acted like the moon in his favorite ballad, that Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. A bare rock in Scotland is transfigured into a glory ; the barren hills " on which you could see a... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 598 pages
...hold of the poet's imagination ; for instance, in the opening — ' The dews of summer night did foil, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.' The story of the murder of the poor young Countess, as told in ' Kenil worth,' is for the most part... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pages
...hold of the poet's imagination ; for instance, in the opening — ' The dews of summer night did full, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.' The story of the murder of the poor young Countess, as told in ' Kenilworth,' is for the most part... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...of Scottish and of general nature, and worthy, as Burns says, of ' the first poet.' CUMNOR HALL. 1 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. 2 Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...poet.' CUMNOR HALL. 1 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. 2 Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's... | |
 | American periodicals - 1861 - 606 pages
...fascination in youth, (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age,) in Mickle's stanza : "The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the wulls of Cuninor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Xot a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely 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 an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1862 - 400 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely 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 an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...fifth did whirl about The other four, in wond'rous motion. SHAESPERE. — King John, Act IV. Scene 2. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. MICELE. — See Scott's Introduction to Kenil worth. 1. By yonder blessed moon I swear. 2. O, swear... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1863 - 446 pages
...fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely 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 an oak that grew thereby. Not a remarkable verse, I think.... | |
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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. 
