 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 Quarterly Review - Seite 4721864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...with his death, at Abbotsford, in the presence of all his children — on the 21st September, 1S32 ; " 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1854 - 746 Seiten
...September twenty-iirst, 1832. ' It was,' says Lockhart, ' a beautiful day, so warm that every win dow 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1855 - 670 Seiten
...children — on a beautiful day, as his son-in-law has with noble, affecting simplicity described it — " 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 Wilson - 1855 - 404 Seiten
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 Seiten
...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 every window...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... | |
 | 1856 - 864 Seiten
...closed. " At half-past one pan., Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window...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... | |
 | James Walter Wall - 1856 - 336 Seiten
...half-past one o'clock of the same day, he quietly breathed his last, in the presence of his children. It was a beautiful day; so warm, that every window...so perfectly still, that the sound of all others, the most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audiblo... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 410 Seiten
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? 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 Wilson - 1856 - 414 Seiten
...us in the only painted Paradise that ever reminded me of Eden. Tickler. What ! You have been there ? 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... | |
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