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. Waverley Novels - Seite 6von Walter Scott - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Adlard - 1870 - 402 Seiten
...presented to the reader :a " CUMNOR 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...unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy lovo That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this... | |
| George Adlard - 1870 - 386 Seiten
...: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...unhappy lady's sighs, That issued from that lonely pile. " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love That thou so oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this... | |
| Walter Scott - 1871 - 496 Seiten
...left the apartment. CHAPTEK SIXTH. 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. MIOKLE. FOUB apartments, which occupied the western side of the old quadrangle at Cumnor Place, had... | |
| James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 564 Seiten
...lines of the poem are these : — " 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. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1871 - 156 Seiten
...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 this poem was as clear as it was enduring, we have the best proof in... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 Seiten
...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 this poem was as clear as it was enduring we have the best proof in the... | |
| Nathan Boughton Warren - 1872 - 310 Seiten
...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... | |
| Mrs. Molesworth - 1872 - 314 Seiten
...had for him. Do you remember — " 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." I only remember that verse ; I don't care a bit for the rest of the ballad, though no doubt we owe... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 Seiten
...928.— CUMNOE HALL. The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvor'd pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to... ̰ a Q ϐ肀 "? 1873 Ward"1 Beeton " Leicester," she cried, " is this thy love That thou во oft hast sworn to me, To leave me in this... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 Seiten
...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 we may trace a poetic soul, a gentle disposition, a mind ahove the... | |
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