 | 1868 - 612 pages
...September, 1832, 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...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
...September, 1832, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It wae a beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...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 - 624 pages
...September, 1832, 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...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 - 608 pages
...September, 1832, 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 tho sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day, — so warm that every window waa wide open, — and so perfectly still that the sound...his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes."1 It now remains to speak of the character of the writings of this most gifted genius and prolific... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...September, Sir Walter breath'ed 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...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.... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - 502 pages
...21st of September, the honoured head lay down in its melancholy last slumber on that " beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle 1 This club is mentioned in a letter from Dr. Clarltson, one of its members, to Sir JY Simpson, Bart.... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pages
...Sir Walter Scott 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 hU eyes." 29 The funeral took place on the 26th September,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1871 - 156 pages
...September 1832, 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...Tweed over its pebbles — was distinctly audible as they knelt round the bed, and his eldest son kissed him and closed his eyes. So lived and died one... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 554 pages
...biographer, "at about half-past one, PM, on the 21st -of September, 1832." "It was a beautiful day, — so warm, that every window was wide open, — and...the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible." Attended by all his children, he died "at the precise age of sixty-one years, one month, and six days,"... | |
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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... 
