 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 its...  Poems - Pagina 128di Thomas William Parsons - 1854 - 189 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pagine
...children. It was a beautiful ay — so warm that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, tat the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of w Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around his ed, and his eldest son kissed... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pagine
...breathed -his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day—so warm, that e^ery window was wide open— and so perfectly still, that...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bod, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 708 pagine
...September tweuty-tirst, 1832. • It was,' says Lockhart, ' a beautiful Jay, so warm that ever)" win dow was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound...distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and Ids eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.' On the twenty-sixth of the same month, he was laid beside... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 pagine
...the twenty-first of September, 1832, SIB WALTER SCOTT breathed his last, in the presence of all bis children. It was a beautiful day— so warm, that...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pagine
...Septemher, 1832, Sir Walter hreathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a heautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open —...to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pehhles, was distinctly audihle as we knelt around nin hed, and his eldest son kissed and elosed his... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 pagine
...breathed his last in the presence of all his children. " It was a beautiful day," says Lockhart ; " so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of T the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt round the bed, and his eldest son... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagine
...loved to anticipate ! " It was," says Mr. Lockhart, "a beautiful day: so warm that every window was . " lied, and his eldest son kissed and clo«™! hi« eyes." LtxMMTt'i Ltft. — dionea, IMO. < Hardly... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pagine
...window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all 10 others most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible »s we knelt around the bed, and hid eldest son kissed aud closed hid eyes. XIX. — THE CHARACTER... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 350 pagine
...version of the Psalms, or broken fragments from Isaiah. " It was," says Mr. Lockhart, his son-in-law, " a beautiful day, so warm, that every window was wide...its pebbles — was distinctly audible, as we knelt round his bed, and his eldest son closed his eyes." May we not venture to hope, that the mighty minstrel... | |
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