 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 602 páginas
...biographer)—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," 2ist September, 1832. His principal poems were stories founded on old legends of Scotland and the north... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 páginas
...Lockhart; " 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." He was buried at Dryburgh Abbey, but it may be said of Scott, as Milton said of Shakespeare, that he... | |
 | Thomas Page (schoolmaster.) - 1883 - 144 páginas
...biographer)—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," 2ist September, 1832. His principal poems were stories founded on old legends of Scotland and the north... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 684 páginas
...house was open—and so perfectly still that the sound of all others nvist delightful to his ears, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible, ns we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Sad to say, in less than... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 páginas
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. " Scott was laid by his wife within a family grave among the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, in the centre... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 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...the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes."—Lockharfs Lije, vol. vii., p. 394.—Croker. 1 Hardly—he was only 57 when it was published.—Croker.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 814 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...the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes."—Lockharfs Ltje, voL vii., p. 394.—Croker. 1 Hardly—he was only 57 when it was published.—Croker.... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1884 - 440 páginas
...It was a beautiful day — so warm that every window was wide open — and so still that the sound most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the...audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son closed and kissed his eyes." James T. Fields. Preparatory Study. I. James T. Fields (1817-1881) was... | |
 | Walter Scott, William Sharp - 1885 - 488 páginas
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Perhaps no higher tribute was ever paid to this great writer and great man than was spoken to him in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1885 - 366 páginas
...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...bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes." Perhaps no higher tribute was ever paid to this great writer and great man than was spoken to him in... | |
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most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes. 
