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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. "
The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 85
by British poets - 1822
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Waverly Novels, Volume 23

Walter Scott - 1864 - 356 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. * MlCKLE. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place, had...
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Leisure Hours in Town

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - English essays - 1864 - 400 pages
...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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Recitations at Whitnash rectory

Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...olfiriv. То SÉ -yf/pac OÚ <T£ T£í'p£í, avatfi а<гарк£, о/лоюс. Ti». GED 15 Cumnor The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew therby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still ; Save an unhappy...
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Pencilings and Sketches of the Poets: A Record of Memory and Love

Margaret T. Downing - English poetry - 1867 - 394 pages
...be lightly regarded. Walter Scott found it in "Evan's Ancient Ballads," and ascribed it to Mlckle : 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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...never to be gratified, that of these edifices no traces now remain. The moonbeams uo longer silver "The walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby." The walls have for years been razed to the ground, and as for the oaks — if any ever existed on the...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 124-125

1868 - 624 pages
...niglits ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza: both to disease and medicine My "' 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.' " That the impression made by...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 96

American periodicals - 1868 - 850 pages
...Square,) especially in the moonlight nights ; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first 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." ' That the impression made by...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 124

English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...Square), especially in the moonlight nights; and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza : " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hull, " And many an oak that grew thereby." ' That the impression made...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 124

English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...the first stanza : f The dews of snmmer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." ' That That the impression made by this poem was as clear as it was enduring, we have the best proof...
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Kenilworth

Walter Scott - 1869 - 696 pages
...muttering, " Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment CHAPTER VI. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of ths sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby * MICKLE. FOUR apartments,...
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