 | Cyril L. C. Locke - English language - 1883 - 124 pages
...mounted once again upon his nimble steed, full slowly pacing o'er the stones with caution and good heed. The dews of summer night did fall: the moon, sweet regent of the sky, silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall. But from the mountain's grassy side a guiltless feast I bring :... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...But she is in her grave, and oh, The difference to me ! Wordsworth. CUMNOK HALL. T CUMNOR HALL. HE 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. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...MICKLE. 1734-1788. The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky,1 Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. Cumnor Hall. For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a' ; There 's little pleasure... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTEE VI. 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.* MlCKLE. i OUR apartments, which occupied the -western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place, had... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Eretz Israel - 1884 - 280 pages
...which is not even now entirely spent." This we can well believe as we read these musical lines : " 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." Repeating these lines a thousand... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - English language - 1885 - 114 pages
...mounted once again upon his nimble steed, full slowly pacing o'er the stones with caution and good heed. The dews of summer night did fall : the moon, sweet regent of the sky, silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall. But from the mountain's grassy side a guiltless feast I bring :... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...live he ; And, when he next doth ride abroad, may I be there to see ! M.— CUMNOR HALL.— WicKU. 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. Now nought was heard beneath... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...These authorities were perhaps too much relu4 tpon by the Author.] t Note A. Title oi '• Kenilworth." THE dews of summer night did fall The moon, sweet...Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now naught was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs,... | |
 | John Veitch - English poetry - 1887 - 388 pages
...exquisite lines — " 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." The lines in ' Eskdale Braes ' referring to places known in his youth have some fine touches, suggesting... | |
 | William Black - 1888 - 284 pages
...Kenilworth, were haunting her brain, it is as likely as not that these were the familiar lines : — " 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." But perhaps it was just as well... | |
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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. 
