 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 Shadow of the Obelisk and Other Poems - Page 32by Thomas William Parsons - 1872 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...half-past one PM on the" 21st [of September, Sir Walter Scott breathed his last in the presence of his 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." Of Sir W. Scott's family we would say a few... | |
 | 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...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 pages
...length the Great Reliever came. " At half-past one, p. M. on the 21st of September, Sir Walter Scott breathed his last in the presence of all his children....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,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...he died, in the presence of all his children. " It was a beautiful day," says his biographer, — " so warm that every window was wide open — and so...was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed." I left the house and strolled for hours over the beautiful grounds. The blossoming shrubbery and the... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...open — and so perfectly still that the sound, of all others most de348 * GENIUS OF SCOTLAND. Itcious 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." The remains of- Sir Walter were buried in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, misc.]) - 1848 - 130 pages
...no doubt, served to shorten his career, he expired about half-past one PM, on the 21st of September, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful...Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as they knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. CHAPTER III. FLORA MAC IVOR.... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 pages
...was wide open — and, so perfectly still, that the sound, of all others most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was...audible, as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest SOD kissed, and closed his eyes." — Lochharfs Life of Scott. THE TBIUMPH OF AUBELIAN. [See Olbbon'i... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...the end of the furrow.' 'About half-past one, PM,' says Mr Lockhart, 'on the 21st of September 1832, , it could do one no harm •on kissed and closed his eyes.' Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and ao perfectly still, that the sound of all others most...the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinetly audible as we knelt around his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." It now... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...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... | |
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