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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
d, the castles of Lubereck and Schonbichl still proudly preserved, and a range of solemn mountains swelling up to the horizon and bounding the whole. But the monks of old always chose well the sites for their monasteries, and the preservation of an establishment of this sort in all its stateliness and wealth shows how little their power is broken down as yet in old Austria, as Prince Metternich calls it. It was a very interesting and a very strange sight to us, Protestants and Puritans. July 4.—. . . . Our next purpose was to pass the night at the monastery of St. Florian, another of the vast Benedictine establishments, which has existed here certainly since 1071, and which still remains in undiminished splendor. They have documents that go back to 819, and claim to have been founded in 455. At any rate, like all the other large and old monasteries in this part of Europe, it goes back to a period earlier than the building of the cities, which cannot be put farther back than the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
to tell all that anybody can desire to know about us. When the cars stopped, the first thing I saw was Lady Lyells charming face on the platform, to welcome us, and during the eighteen days that have followed since, we have had nothing but kindness and hospitality. Our old friends, adding to them those with whom I have had intercourse without personally knowing them, have filled up our whole time. Five invitations were waiting for us when we arrived. In the letter to W. S. Dexter of July 4, mentioned above, he says, after being four days in London: Thus far I am in for eight dinners and four breakfasts, all of which promise to be very agreeable, but will make heavy drafts on my resources of all sorts, and will probably do me up. But vogue la galere; for I have always thought a regular London life little better than that of a galley-slave. Lord Stanhope came the next morning, immediately after breakfast, and I gave him your letter. Mentioned before as Lord Mahon. See ante,