 | Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. We here drop the curtain: not, however, without strongly recommending a perusal of the volume to our... | |
 | 1838 - 654 pages
...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...bed. and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Such was the termination of a great and good man's career, hastened, no doubt, by a dangerous and inordinate... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." — p. 294. The impression left upon the mind of every reader of these Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 380 pages
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose : — KHTO fifyatf fLiyct^aitfri, XsX«<r«;voj... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 384 pages
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose : — Almost every newspaper that announced... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...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...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
...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 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
...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 round the bed, and his oldest son kissed and closed his eyes." " And now His silent all — Enchanter,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. 1 Another day, and a bright one to the external world, again opens on us: the air soft, and the flowers... | |
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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... 
