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,
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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Eastlake, Sir, Charles, II