 | 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...soul 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...the germ of Kenilwortb, of which he used as a boy to be continually repeating the first verse, — " The dews of summer night did fall — The moon, sweet regent of the iky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor hall. And many an oak that grew thereby; " — • in the lays of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 354 pages
...apartment. CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silrer'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. • HICKLK. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place,... | |
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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. 
