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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
, delightful old Mr. Elphinstone, the gentle, learned old gentleman we knew at Rome . . . . . His establishment here is truly comfortable and agreeable, in the midst of a fine library; but it is not luxurious, and the secret of the whole is, that he is a wise man, who makes himself happier with the society of the first mark and intellect in London, which is all open to him, and who knows that he is happier than he could be made by an Indian income bought by ten years more absence from home. Felix qui potuit. The party to-day consisted of Empson; Richardson, so much mentioned by Lockhart as Scott's friend; Mackenzie, son of the Man, of Feeling, long Secretary-General in India; Phillips, Thomas J. Phillips, mentioned in Vol. I. p. 443. the barrister; Murchison, the man of fashion and the great geologist; Professor Wilson, of the London University; Colonel Leake, the Greek traveller; and Wilkinson, the Egyptian traveller. We sat at a round table, just ten of us, and the servi