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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. "
Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date - Page 88
by Thomas Evans - 1810
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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
...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, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor-Place, had...
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Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester: A Critical Inquiry Into the ...

George Adlard - 1870 - 386 pages
...that the present excerpt has been made, which is now presented to the reader :2 " CUMJSTOE HALL. THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silver 'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath...
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The Lands of Scott

James Frothingham Hunnewell - Europe - 1871 - 564 pages
...now entirely spent " [1831]. The opening and also the closing lines of the poem are these : — " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 12

Walter Scott - 1871 - 496 pages
..." Now for a close heart, and an open and unruffled brow," he left the apartment. CHAPTEK SIXTH. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. MIOKLE. FOUB apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor Place, had...
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Hips and haws, or, Double acrostics, by various authors, ed. by A.P.A.

Hips - 1871 - 106 pages
...spilt upon her dress changed the fortunes of Europe. 2. A city of Canaan, taken by stratagem. 3. ' The dews of summer night did fall: The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor ; And many an oak that grew thereby.' 4. An Indian term (generally applied to rupees), which has a...
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The Best of All Good Company

Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...especially in the moonlight nights, and he seemed never weary of repeating the first stanza j — " ' 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 life of sir Walter Scott, repr. with additions from the Quarterly review

George Robert Gleig - 1871 - 156 pages
...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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She was young and he was old, by the author of 'Lover and husband'.

Mrs. Molesworth - 1872 - 314 pages
...fascination the first verse of the old ballad of " Cumnor Hall" had for him. Do you remember — " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." I only remember that verse ; I don't care a bit for the rest of the ballad, though no doubt we owe...
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Hidden Treasure, Or, The Good St. Nicholas: A Goblin Story for Christmas

Nathan Boughton Warren - Christmas stories - 1872 - 310 pages
...in groups over the park beyond the walls of the court-yard, reminded me of a favorite old song : " The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." I thought of the quaint fun and merriment I had just witnessed ; of the unexpected appearance of my...
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