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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 60 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 15 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 6 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
nglishmen, with several Frenchmen, well known in the world,—such as Marron the preacher, whom Bonaparte liked so much, Stapfer the Swiss minister, who concluded the treaty of 1802, several professors of the College de France, etc. This evening Mrs. Godwin was there, wife of the notorious William Godwin, and successor to the no less notorious Mary Wollstonecraft. She has come to Paris to sell a romance, of which I have forgotten the title, that her husband has recently written, and thinks as good as Caleb Williams. The booksellers of Paris, I believe, are not of his opinion, and probably they are right, for Mr. Godwin is no longer at the age in which the imagination is capable of such efforts. Miss Williams herself is evidently waning. Her conversation is not equal to her reputation, and I suspect never was brilliant; since, as I should think, it must always have been affected. But still she is an uncommon woman, and, except when she gets upon politics, talks sensibly. . . . . Aft
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
her. Playfair. Scott. Abbotsford. Southey. Wordsworth. Dr. Parr. Sir James MacKINTOSHintosh. London. Hazlitt. Godwin. Wilberforce. return to America. To Mr. Elisha Ticknor. Edinburgh, February 11, 1819. I have received your lnd, when quite young, lived several years in America, chiefly in Virginia, but a little while at our Dorchester. . . . Godwin is as far removed from everything feverish and exciting as if his head had never been filled with anything but geometry. s nervous system. The true way, however, to see these people was to meet them all together, as I did once at dinner at Godwin's, and once at a convocation, or Saturday Night Club, at Hunt's, where they felt themselves bound to show off and produce an effect; for then Lamb's gentle humor, Hunt's passion, and Curran's volubility, Hazlitt's sharpness and point, and Godwin's great head full of cold brains, all coming into contact and conflict, and agreeing in nothing but their common hatred of ev
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ical and moral state, 102, 103. German universities, 75, 89, 90, 102. Gesenius, W., 111. Gibraltar, visits, 235, 236. Gifford, William, 58, 60, 62, 294. Gilbert, Davies, 405. Giustiniani, Prince, Nuncio, 188, 193, 194 note. Godwin, Mrs., William, 130, 294. Godwin, William, 130, 294. Goethe, Wolfgang A. von, 113-115, 165, 211, 455, 490 note, 500. Goltz, Count, 122. Gonzales, librarian, Madrid, 197. Gott, Messrs., 438. Gottingen, 11, 395; G. T. arrives at, 69; life there,Godwin, William, 130, 294. Goethe, Wolfgang A. von, 113-115, 165, 211, 455, 490 note, 500. Goltz, Count, 122. Gonzales, librarian, Madrid, 197. Gott, Messrs., 438. Gottingen, 11, 395; G. T. arrives at, 69; life there, 70-107, 116-121; description of, 74, 75; leaves there, 121. Gottingen University, 70, 72, 75, 76, 82; during the French War, 83, 84; Literary Club, 85; secret societies, 90-93. Gourieff, Count, 487. Graham, Lady, James, 407. Grammont, Duchesse de, 257. Granada, 193; visits, 228-232; Archbishop of, 228, 229 and note, 232; Cathedral of, 229. Grant, Mrs., Anne, of Laggan, 274, 278 and note, 279. Grassi, Padre, 193 note. Graves, Doctor, 420, 421. Gray, Francis Calley, 31, 318 an