 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
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - 1871 - 534 pagine
...at Abbotsford, wrote his biographer, "at about half-past one, PM, on the 2ist of September, 1832." "It was a beautiful day, — so warm, that every window...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,"... | |
 | Cornelia Catherine Joy Dyer - 1873 - 316 pagine
...God bless you all," upon his lips, he breathed his last. "It was a beautiful day," says Lockhart, — "so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly...pebbles, was distinctly audible, as we knelt around his bed, and his eldest son kissed, and closed his eyes." As we stood, in silence, by that open window,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1871 - 118 pagine
...21st of September, 1832, the end arrived with the gentleness of sleep, in the presence of all of hia children. " It was a beautiful day, so warm that every...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 - 540 pagine
...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." Attended by all his children, he ied "at the precise age of sixty-one... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pagine
...absence from their posts, and both reached Abbotsford on the 19th. At halfpast one pm, on the 21st, Sir Walter breathed his last in the presence of all...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pagine
...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 Scott - 1877 - 462 pagine
...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 pagine
...September 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 —...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... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pagine
...Lockhart, I mostly fancied I could see it. "About half-past one pm, on the 21st of September, (1832,) Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." I must proceed — The external walls of Abbotsford... | |
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