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... The Dublin university magazine - Page 262by University magazine - 1848Full view - About this book
| England - 1843 - 832 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. " It was a heantiful day," we have heen elsewhere told, " 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 ofthe Tweedoverits pehhles, was distinctly andihle as we knelt around the hed,... | |
| Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...the 21 st of September, Sir 122 Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was...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 the... | |
| 1838 - 654 pages
...September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful dny — so warm that every window was wide open — and so...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 the... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 510 pages
...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 pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 384 pages
...on the 21st of September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was...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 the... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 380 pages
...on the 21st of September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was...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 the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...the" 21st [of September, Sir Walter Scott breathed his last in the presence of his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was...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 - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 386 pages
...last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every windowwas 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 the... | |
| 1840 - 566 pages
...comes with the gloom of the closed curtain and the darkened chamber. " It was," says his biographer, " a beautiful day — so warm that every window was...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... | |
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