 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854 - 502 pages
...1832; " a beaut il'ul day —so warm, that every window was wide open—and so perfectly still, tluit the sound of all others most delicious to his ear,...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Lockhart's connection with Blackwood did not... | |
 | Thomas William Parsons - 1854 - 204 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 perfectly...that the sound of all others most delicious to his oar — the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt around... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 pages
...children — on a beautiful day, as his son-in-law has with noble, affecting simplicity described it — " 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." Past are the two-and-twenty autumns. And gone... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 406 pages
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? every window was wide open — and so perfectly still,...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... | |
 | 1856 - 768 pages
...SIB WALTER SCOTT breathed his last, in the presence of all bis children. It was a beautiful day— so warm, that every window was wide open ; and so...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose.1 LOOKHABT'S Lira OF SOOTT. THE sunset's... | |
 | 1856 - 864 pages
...pan., 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 Wilson - 1856 - 410 pages
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? every window was wide open — and so perfectly still,...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 414 pages
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? every window was wide open — and so perfectly still,...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 Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 pages
...the same day, he quietly 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 still, that the sound of all others, the most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audiblo... | |
 | 1856 - 694 pages
...WALTER SCOTT breathed his last, In tho presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — go warm, that every window was wide open ; and so perfectly still, that tho sound of all others most delicious to bis ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over Its pebbles,... | |
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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... 
