 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 perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 291publié par - 1856Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 414 pages
...window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." He was buried in the Abbey of Dryburgh, on... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...every window was open : and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear. the gentle ripple of the Tweed over Its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the lied, and his eldest son kissed and clo«™! hi« eyes." LtxMMTt'i Ltft. — dionea, IMO. < Hardly... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...every window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. • These are remarkable words. Here was a... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1863 - 366 pages
...every window was wide 6pen ; and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear — the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt around the bed; and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes !" CHAPTER XXI. EN ROUTE FOB LONDON "THE LAIRD... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all 10 others most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible »s we knelt around the bed, and hid eldest son kissed aud closed hid eyes. XIX. — THE CHARACTER... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 348 pages
...every window was wide open ; and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear — the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt around the bed ; and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes !" CHAPTEE XXI. KH ROUTE POB LONDON— "THE... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 348 pages
...every window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear — the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt round his bed, and his eldest son closed his eyes." May we not venture to hope, that the mighty minstrel... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1864 - 600 pages
...window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ears, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' — Life of Scott, ch. 83. There, There, his... | |
 | 1864 - 610 pages
...window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ears, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' — Life of Scott. ch. 83. There, There, his... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pages
...every window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Scott was laid by his wife within a family... | |
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