 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
