 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
 | James Thomas Fields - 1866 - 420 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. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 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." His miscellaneous works are exceedingly numerous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 pages
...that every window was open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." xliii j luck to Homer and Shakespeare,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 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. § 68. The Colloquial Style. (See § 52.) 1.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1867 - 670 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... | |
 | 1868 - 624 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 they knelt round the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' So lived and died one of... | |
 | 1868 - 850 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 they knelt round the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' So lived and died one of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1868 - 608 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 they knelt round the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' So lived and died one of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1868 - 612 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 they knelt round the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' So lived and died one of... | |
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