 | 1843 - 832 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. " It was a heantiful day," we have heen elsewhere told, " so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple ofthe Tweedoverits pehhles, was distinctly andihle as we knelt around the hed, and his eldest son kissed... | |
 | 1837 - 392 pages
...September, Sir 122 Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open— and so...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. We here drop the curtain: not, however, without... | |
 | 1838 - 654 pages
...September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful dny — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed. and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Such was the termination of a great and good... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 510 pages
...presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day—so warm that every window was wide open—and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...September, Sir Walter Scott breathed his last in the presence of his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly....bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Of Sir W. Scott's family we would say a few words. He had two sons and two daughters. The elder daughter... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 380 pages
...September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 384 pages
...September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open— and so...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1839 - 420 pages
...September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." — p. 294. The impression left upon the mind... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 388 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every windowwas wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...the closed curtain and the darkened chamber. " It was," says his biographer, " a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Upon the banks of that river, once the frontier of Scotland, and famed in its song and story, there... | |
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