...which he used as a boy to be continually repeating the first verse, — " 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 ; " — in the lays of Tasso, Ariosto, &c., he laid up so much of the food of future romance, and where...

...blow, Unknown the hand that laid the tyrant low. CUMNOR HALL.* BY MICKLE. 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. • Sir Walter Scott's admiration of this ballad induced him to found, on the same incidents, the popular...

...he tells us it was not eptircly gone even in age) in Mickle's stanza, — " The dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many nn oak that grew thereby." Not a remarkable verse, I think. However, it at least presents a pleasant...

...ava' ; There's little pleasure in the house, When our gudeman's awa'. * " -The dews of summer night did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Curnnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby." Rise up and mak' a clean fireside, Put on the muckle...

...of that 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...

...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...

...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...

...general nature, and worthy, as Burns says, of ' the first poet.' CUMNOR HALL. 1 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. 2 Now nought was heard beneath the skies, The sounds of busy life were still, Save an unhappy lady's...

...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 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...

...he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age), in Mickle's stanza : — 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. Not a remarkable verse, I think. However, it at least presents a pleasant picture. But I remember well...