| John Veitch - 1887 - 388 стор.
...Braes.' The first stanza of the former poem has the exquisite lines — " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." The lines in ' Eskdale Braes ' referring to places known in his youth have some fine touches, suggesting... | |
| William Black - 1888 - 284 стор.
...her brain, it is as likely as not that these were the familiar lines : — " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." But perhaps it was just as well that she had not encountered the ghost of poor Amy Eobsart. CHAPTEE... | |
| William Black - 1888 - 284 стор.
...were the familiar lines : — " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the isky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." But perhaps it was just as well that she had not encountered the ghost of poor Amy Robsart. CHAPTEE... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 стор.
...whatsoever king shall reign, Still I'll be Vicar of Bray, sir. ANONYMOUS. Cumnor THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Now naught was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1909 - 582 стор.
...Scott tells us that its music haunted him as a boy. The first stanza runs : The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby. Of this Lewes gives alternative versions, one literal and one free :— The nightly dews commenced... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 стор.
...seated ; placed himself. cruel fate. The ' labour harsh ' in the next line. - 65. that pass there by. 'The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew there by.' — Julius Mickle. Milton has ' that passed that way' (Par. Lost, Bk. IV, 1. 177) to express... | |
| Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 стор.
...realm, — that halfmystic idea that consecrated what it touched ; the moonlight, as it were, which "Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby."! Why, then, did the English endure the everlasting Chancellor ? The fact is, that Lord Eldon's rule... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1891 - 384 стор.
...to dust. 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 oak that grew thereby. Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1892 - 518 стор.
...of the verse of a ballad by Mickle which haunted his boyhood ; it is this : The dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...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 Black - 1893 - 458 стор.
...her brain, it is as likely as not that these were the familiar lines — " The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered...of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby ". But perhaps it was just as well that she had not encountered the ghost of poor Amy Robsart. CHAPTER... | |
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