 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...Cumnor Hall, was never weary of repeating< during those evening walks, the following 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." In Scott's love for these lines... | |
 | Noble Butler - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1874 - 342 pages
...tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good ! — Goldsmith. The dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky. Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall I And many an oak that grew thereby. — Micklc. Ah ! my heart is... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...turn'd fair Annie from my door, * Wha died for love of me ! ' 1 20 Unknown 94 bide, wait * 41 * CUM NOR HALL THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon,...grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies ; 5 The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's sighs That issued from that lonely pile.... | |
 | 1875 - 822 pages
...peculiar species of enchantment for his youthful ear, "the force of which is not even now entirely spent." The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Grainger, who wrote a long and wearisome poem in blank verse on " The Sugar Cane," was the intimate... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1875 - 660 pages
...the author, the force of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, SilverM the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 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. 1 And hail their queen, fair regent of the nigh't. Darwin, The Botanic Garden, Pt. I,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...profession. Subsequent!y secretary to Commodora Johnston. Died at Forest Hill, near Oxford, 1788.] 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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...absolute certainty who wrote it, but authorities entitled to respect attribute the authorship to Mickle. CUMNOR HALL. 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 - 1879 - 422 pages
...open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. GEORGE-GOLD NOBLE OF HENRY VIH. CHAPTER THE SIXTH. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet...the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew therehy.* MICKLE. FOUR apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...the author, the forco of which is not even now entirely spent ; some others are sufficiently prosaic. CUMNOR HALL. 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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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. 
