 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.  Kenilworth - Page viiiby Walter Scott - 1836Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...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. Chambers says that of this ballad an imperfect, altered, and corrected... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...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 of this ballad induced him to found, on the same incidents, the popular... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...167 r FWOURITE MODERN BALLADS 1' r - • THE dews of summer-night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And...still— Save an unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " Leicester!" she cried, " is this thy love. That thou so oft hast sworn to... | |
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