 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 532 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath eigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The haunted towers... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 698 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Gumuor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall : Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath siglt'd, And pensive wept the Countess* fall, As \vand,ring onwards they've espied The haunted towers... | |
 | George Russell French - Families of royal descent - 1853 - 234 pages
...Dudley, the unworthy Leicester, and her terrible fate at Cumnor Hall, be read with breathless interest. " Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive...fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall." MICKLB. NELSON has thus been traced by several lines to his kingly ancestor,... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1853 - 810 pages
...nor beasts we ken. (/) The iv^-.tod is heavy with snow. 2. Explain the following allusions — (a) Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive...fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall. (4) Other Eoraans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name, Sounds, not arms,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller has sighed, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The haunted towers... | |
 | England - 1856 - 586 pages
...enthusiastic romancist who visits it, however, will, we fear, be disappointed. Mickle tells us that " Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the countess' full, As wand'ring onwards they've espied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall." Much more then might... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sighed, And pensive wept the Countess' fall ; As wandering onward they Ve espied The haunted towers... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 218 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall ! The village-maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall, Nor ever lead the merry dance Among...hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As, wand'ring onwards, he has spied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall. BLACK-EYED SUSAN. ALL in the Downs... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall! The village-maids, with fearful glanee. Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall, Nor ever lead the merry dance Among...hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As, wand'ring onwards, he has spied The haunted towers of Cumnor Hall. \ BLACK-EYED A LI, iu the Downs... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1863 - 302 pages
...hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall ! . The village maids with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall, Nor ever lead the merry dance Among...groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sighed, And pensive wept the countess' fall, As, wand'ring onwards, he has spied The haunted towers... | |
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... on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with... 
