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... Poems - Pagina 128di Thomas William Parsons - 1854 - 189 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1837 - 392 pagine
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. We here drop the curtain: not, however, without strongly recommending a perusal of the volume to our... | |
| 1838 - 654 pagine
...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...bed. and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Such was the termination of a great and good man's career, hastened, no doubt, by a dangerous and inordinate... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 384 pagine
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose : — Almost every newspaper that announced... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 380 pagine
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose : — KHTO fifyatf fLiyct^aitfri, XsX«<r«;voj... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1839 - 420 pagine
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." — p. 294. The impression left upon the mind of every reader of these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pagine
...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 his .bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Of Sir W. Scott's family we would say a few... | |
| 1840 - 566 pagine
...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 his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Upon the banks of that river, once the frontier... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 pagine
...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 round the bed, and his oldest son kissed and closed his eyes." " And now His silent all — Enchanter,... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pagine
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. 1 Another day, and a bright one to the external world, again opens on us: the air soft, and the flowers... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagine
...window was wide open — and so perfectly still that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, 0. x 0. Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, ilute nature mourns her worshipper,... | |
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