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 - Seite 262von University magazine - 1848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 Seiten
...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 —...that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pehhles, was distinctly audihle as we knelt around nin... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 680 Seiten
...death. Thus he expired, all his children around him. "It was a beautiful day," says his biographer—"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 of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the... | |
| James White - 1858 - 316 Seiten
...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...that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of T the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt round the... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 Seiten
...loved to anticipate ! " It was," says Mr. Lockhart, "a beautiful day: so warm that every window was 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 Seiten
...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 wide...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 Seiten
...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 wide...open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all 10 others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 Seiten
...beautiful day ; so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all 10 others most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple...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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1863 - 366 Seiten
...him. " It was a beautiful day," says his biographer ; " so warm, that every window was wide 6pen ; 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1864 - 600 Seiten
...of language ; but his home and his strength lay in our own literature and our own tongue. * 'It -was a beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide...that the sound of all others most delicious to his ears, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the... | |
| 1864 - 610 Seiten
...of language ; but his home and his strength lay in our own literature and our own tongue. * ' It was a beautiful day, so warm that every window was wide...that the sound of all others most delicious to his ears, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the... | |
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