 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 462 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...the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was audible as we knelt around the bed and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." According to Howitt's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...1832, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beantiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, w'as distinctly andible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' Call it not vain... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 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 perfectly...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window v;as wide open — and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, tho gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed,... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pages
...(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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." I must proceed — The external walls of Abbotsford are adorned with many pld carved stones which have... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1881 - 312 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...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." 2 Before that time, however, the cloud of... | |
 | James Colston - 1881 - 154 pages
...six days. ' It was a beautiful day,' says his biographer, — 'so warm that every window was thrown open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of...pebbles was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' The announcement of his somewhat premature... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 388 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...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... | |
 | 1882 - 330 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...still that the sound of all others most delicious to the ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt round... | |
 | William Russell - 1882 - 332 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...still that the sound of all others most delicious to the ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt round... | |
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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... 
