 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1871 - 118 pages
...arrived with the gentleness of sleep, in the presence of all of hia children. " It was a beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pobbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 542 pages
...one, PM, on the 2ist of September, 832." "It was a beautiful day, — so warm, that every window 'as wide open, — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others lost delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its ebbles, was distinctly audible."... | |
 | Thomas William Parsons - 1872 - 132 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...pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt around the bed ; and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' — LOCKHART'S LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.... | |
 | Thomas William Parsons - 1872 - 136 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 ear—the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles—was distinctly audible, as we knelt around... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...the 21st, 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 the family knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. His remains were laid... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pages
...day, so warm that every window was wide open, and BO perfectly still that the sound of all others moat 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 kissed and closed his eyes." He was buried within the picturesque... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...1832, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — ur bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams'...burning. No useless coffin inclosed his breast, Not the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pages
...his last. "It was a beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly ft ill that the sound of all others most delicious to his...over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt round his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." He was buried within the picturesque... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - 424 pages
...man breathed his last in presence of all his children. Lockhart says, " It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...still that the sound, of all others most delicious THOMAS PRINGLE of Blakelaw, in Linton parish, possessed high general attainments, and was a poet of... | |
 | Walter Riddell Carre - 1876 - 404 pages
...man breathed his last in presence of all his children. Lockhart says, " It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open— and so perfectly still that the sound, of all others most deliciousTHOMAS PRINGLE of Blakelaw, in Linton parish, possessed high general attainments, and was... | |
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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... 
