| James Boswell - 1889 - 558 páginas
...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...around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed hi* eyes."—Lockhart's Life, vol. vii., p. 394.—Croker. 1 Hardly—he was only 57 when it was published.—... | |
| 1848 - 864 páginas
...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...the bed, and his eldest son kissed, and closed his eyes."—Lockhart's Life of Scott. THE TBIUMPH OF AÜRELIAN. [See Oibbon's " Decline and Fall of the... | |
| 272 páginas
...window 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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. TO SIMPLICITY. Oh! I do love thee, meek simplicity ! For of thy lays the lulling simplencss Goes to... | |
| 1838 - 654 páginas
...day—so warm that every window was wide open—and so perfectly still, thut the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the...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... | |
| 1838 - 664 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Idler and breafast-table companion - 1838 - 176 páginas
...day—so warm that every window was wide open—and so perfectly still, that the found of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the...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... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 386 páginas
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose : — Kti¿v, ¿eiyac cesyaAa¿oci, tsXmvzei,,ç... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 384 páginas
...day—so warm that everv window was wide open— and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. No sculptor ever modelled a more majestic image of repose: — Kfiro piycis p.<.ya.}.u<rr}, X£Xa<rw£vo;... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 páginas
...was wide open, and so perfectlystill, 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." Of Sir W. Scott's family we would say a few... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1840 - 570 páginas
...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...pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around his bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Upon the banks ofthat river, once the frontier... | |
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