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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
l works, has been uncommonly kind to me ever since I have been in Geneva. To-day he invited me to a dinner, where I found myself surrounded by the corpus Academicum, and a representation of the Bibliotheque Britannique. I was struck with the exhibition of talent I witnessed, and particularly with De Candolle, professor of botany, who has great powers of conversation, without that perpetual attempt at brilliancy and epigram which I found in Paris society, and which I have found here only in Dumont. In the evening I went to a large party at Dr. Buttini's, the first physician in Geneva. I found most of the society I met last evening, but was so much interested by the conversation of President de la Rive that I made few new acquaintances. September 14.—A Russian Countess Bruess is living here, and finding it difficult to spend an income—said to be a million of francs a year —amuses herself with giving such entertainments as the simple Genevans rarely see. Just at this time the bir<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
discourse. He made conversation a fair exchange, and if his guest had anything to say, he was sure to have an opportunity. Miss Edgeworth wrote, in 1835, After a visit made by Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor at Edgeworthtown. to a friend of Mr. Ticknor, thus:— I have been acquainted, and I may say intimately, with some of the most distinguished literary persons in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland, and have seen and heard all those distinguished for conversational talents; Talleyrand, Dumont, Mackintosh, Romilly, Dugald Stewart, Erskine, Sir Walter Scott, Sydney Smith, and Mr. Sharpe, the fashionable dinner-lions of London. I have passed days in the country-houses and in the domestic intimacy of some of them, and after all, I can, with strict truth, assure you, that Mr. Ticknor's conversation appeared to me fully on an equality with the most admired, in happy, apposite readiness of recollection and application of knowledge, in stores of anecdote, and in ease in producing them,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
een removed, and Jesuits placed in their stead. After lunch,—there is only one service in the church,—Miss Edgeworth showed me a good many curious letters from Dumont,— one in particular, giving an account of Madame de Stael's visit, in 1813, to Lord Lansdowne at Bowood, for a week, when Mackintosh, Romilly, Schlegel, Rogers, a feeling apparently willing to live in a state of continual exhibition for so long a time. It was, however, very brilliant, and was most brilliantly described by Dumont. One thing amused me very much. Madame de Stael, who had just been reading the Tales of Fashionable Life,—then recently published,—with great admiration, said to Dumont of Miss Edgeworth: Vraiment elle était digne de l'enthousiasme, mais elle se perd dans votre triste utilitye. It seemed to delight Miss Edgeworth excessively, and it was to show me this that she looked up the letters. In the evening she showed me her long correspondence with Sir Walter Scott, at least his part of
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
70, 95, 115, 121. D'Ivernois, Sir, Francis, 153, 155. Don, General, Sir George, 235 and note. Don Quixote, 186, 223. Douglas, Lady, 180. Downie, Sir, John, 238, 240, 241. Downshire, Dowager-Marchioness of, 258, 295, 296. Downshire, Marquess of, 296. Doyle, Francis Hastings, 447. Doyle, Miss, 447. Doyle, Sir, Francis, 442, 446, 447. Draveil Chateau, visits, 146-148. Dresden Gallery, 109, 468. Dresden, visits, 109, 456-489. Drew, Mrs., 180. Dublin, visits, 419. Dumont, M., 154, 430. Dundas, Dr., 440, 444. Duras, Duc de, 253. Duras, Duchesse de, 253, 254, 255 and note, 256, 258-23, 304. Duval, Judge, 39. Dwight, Miss, Anna, 398. Dwight, Miss, Catherine, death of, 456. E Ebrington, Viscount and Viscountess, 269. Eckhardstein, Baron, 177. Edgeworth, Miss, Honora, 427. Edgeworth, Miss, Maria, letter from, 388; opinion of Mr. Ticknor, 392; visit to, 426-432, 446, 458. Edgeworth, Mrs. R. L., 426, 427 and note, 428; death of, 432 note. Edg
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
and visited it quite alone, but otherwise the enclosure was never opened. Geneva, September 6.—. . . . Geneva is extremely changed in all respects, and bears everywhere the marks of its increased wealth. . . . . Society is no less changed. Sismondi is in Italy. . . . . Bonstetten, the head of all that was literary and agreeable, died two years ago, about ninety years old. Prevost, one of the coterie of Frederic the Great; both the Pictets; Simond, the traveller; the President de la Rive; Dumont, etc., etc., are all gone. . . . . Indeed, it is apparent that Geneva is becoming almost entirely a place of commerce, and its prosperity will every day increase its commercial tendencies. September 8.—I have renewed my acquaintance with Mad. Rilliet, Huber, and M. Hess, the first of whom is the most intimate friend of the De Staels remaining in Geneva, and the last, a man of letters attached to her household. They are all that survive of the delightful circle in which I passed some time
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Downshire, Marquess of, I. 296. Dowse, Thomas, I. 417, 418. Doyle, II. 376. Doyle, Francis Hastings (Sir), I. 447, II. 478. Doyle, Miss, I 447. Doyle, Sir, Francis, I. 442, 446, 447, II. 149 Draveil Chateau, visits, I. 146-148. Dresden, visits, I. 109, 456-489, II. 329, 330, 333, 334; picture-gallery, I. 109, 468. Drew, Mrs., I. 180. Droz, M., II. 130. Dublin visits, I. 419-425. Duchatel, Count C. M. T., II. 126, 129, 131, 136. Dufferin, Lord, II. 372. Dumont, M., I. 154, 430, I. 37. Duncan, Dr., II. 168. Dundas, Dr., I. 440, 444. Dundas, Sir W., II. 79. Duras, Due de, I. 253. Duras, Duchess de, I. 253, 254, 266 and note, 256, 258-263, 304, II. 125, 132, 355. Durham, First Earl of, II. 146. Duval Judge, I. 39. Duvergier de Hauranne, II. 131, 186. Dwight, Miss, Anna, I. 398. Dwight, Miss, Catherine, death of, I 456. Dwight, Miss, Ellen. See Twisleton, Hon. Mrs. E. Dyce, Rev. A., II. 181. E Eastlake, Sir, Charles, II