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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
. . . . . It is not at all dangerous. Mr. Adams, who arrived in town the same day that we did, assures us there is, and will be, no hazard or embarrassment in going now, or after hostilities have commenced, even directly to France, much less to Holland, and to a university which knows no changes of war or peace. Besides, Americans are now treated with the most distinguished kindness and courtesy wherever they are known to be such. This I know from the testimony of very many of our countrymeof introduction. Besides the letters he has sent me for Fauriel and Ali Pacha, he accompanied the last with a present of a splendid pistol, which is to insure me a kind reception with the perverse Turk, and a copy of his own poems, and one of Dr. Holland's Travels in Greece, which was given to him by the author,—with whom he has authorized me to use his name, to procure further facilities for my journey, if I should meet him on the Continent. June 29.—To-day, after some trouble, though none
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
ds and among their books, he declared that he considered Gottingen as an establishment which belonged neither to Hanover nor to Germany, but to Europe and the world; and he was not only true to the promise he made to the faculty here, to protect them, but, under the government of Jerome, they were liberally assisted by the influence and even the wealth of the throne. In consequence of this, Gottingen, instead of coming from the hands of the French nearly abolished, like the universities of Holland, or mutilated and abridged in its funds and privileges, like those of Saxony, now stands higher than it ever stood before, and at this moment—when an immense proportion of the young men of the country are in the ranks of the army, from choice or compulsion, and all the other literary establishments, even those at Halle, Leipsic, and Berlin, are languishing for want of pupils—reckons on its books above eight hundred and forty regular pupils. The number of professors is proportionally great
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
e, are like the merchants in Amsterdam, London, and Boston, and to listen to their comical abuse, which all true Frankforters poured out against the Diet, its members, their operations, pride, etc., etc. I passed an extremely pleasant evening at Senator Smidt's, a man of talent, Ambassador from Bremen, with much influence in the Bundestag. There was a large supper-party, consisting of Count Goltz, the Prussian Ambassador, the Darmstadt Minister, Baron Gagern, the Minister of the King of Holland for Luxembourg,—the most eloquent member of the Diet, and one whose influence over public opinion is probably greater than that of any other, and his influence over the Diet as great as anybody's,—Frederick von Schlegel, again to my great satisfaction, etc., etc. Baron Gagern reminded me of Jeremiah Mason, Mr. Ticknor, on a visit to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, before he went to Europe, carried a letter of introduction to Mr. Jeremiah Mason, a distinguished lawyer of that city, and was in
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
s said he ventured, when the Bishop received him, that the king should not dine so well as the Bishop of Malaga, for such a luxurious dinner I have rarely beheld, and never one so elaborate. The bread, as he told me himself, came from five-and-twenty miles off, because the baker is better; all the water is brought on mules fifty miles, from a fountain that has the reputation of stimulating the appetite and promoting digestion; he had meats on the table from every part of Spain, pastry from Holland, and wines from all over Europe. In short, taking his eloquence, his culture, and his dinner together, he is as near the original of Gil Bias' Bishop of Granada as a priest of the nineteenth century need be; and if he should ever come to the archbishopric, which is probable, nothing will be wanting but the shrewd, practical secretary, to complete the group which Le Sage has so admirably drawn. My journey to Gibraltar was bad. The first day it rained the whole time, so that I was wet thr
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
d I do not well know how dinners and evenings could be more pleasant. There was no alloy but Lady Holland, whom I did not like,. . . . but I should have been very foolish if I had suffered this to prevent my enjoyment, when to avoid it I had only to talk to some one else Lady Holland was polite and even kind in after years to Mr. Ticknor, who used to attribute it to a little passage of arms thed that he was not aware of it, but said he knew that some of the Vassall family—ancestors of Lady Holland—had settled early in Massachusetts, where a house built by one of them was standing in Cambrige, and a marble monument to a member of the family was to be seen in King's Chapel, Boston. Lady Holland was, for a moment, surprised into silence; then questioned him about the monument, and asked rong feelings and great independence of character, which make him sometimes oppose and answer Lady Holland in a curious manner. He has many prejudices, most of them subdued with difficulty, by his we
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
indefinite intellectual activity, bold and frank in expressing all his opinions and feelings. . . . I dined at Lord Holland's, in his venerable and admirable establishment at Holland House. The party was small, but it was select. Lord and Lady Holland, and Mr. Allen; Colonel Fox, and his wife Lady Mary, the daughter of the present king; Earl Grey, who has such preponderating influence now, without being Minister; Lord Melbourne, the Premier himself; Mr. Labouchere, Henry Labouchere, afteime Minister—have suspected that any burden of the state rested on his shoulders. It struck me as singular that dinner was not at all delayed for him; so that we sat down without him and without inquiry, except that, after we were at table, Lady Holland asked Lady Cowper if her brother would not come. To which she replied, he certainly would. Even at last, when he came in, so little notice was taken of him that, though he sat opposite to me,—and the party was very small and at a round table
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
are indebted to Lord Dudley Stuart for carrying the bill in favor of the Poles through Parliament—was there a little while, and improvisated with great talent. There was nothing English about it, any more than if we had all been in Italy. Dr. Holland, who travelled in Greece with Lord Byron, came to see me one morning, in consequence of a note from Miss Edgeworth, and was very kind in attentions afterwards, but I could only find time to breakfast with him. He is a short, active, very livelnute familiarity with American geography, but he is a very simple, direct, and agreeable person. His wife — a daughter of Sydney Smith—was not in town, for which I was sorry. But I shall see them both, I trust, when we return to England, for Dr. Holland is among the most interesting men I have met. He is now becoming one of the most famous and fashionable of the London physicians. The day after we reached London the kind Sir Francis Doyle came to see us, and invited us so very pleasantly t<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
describes, in the following entry in his journal, the beginning of a delightful acquaintance with a charming circle. Journal. One day I passed very agreeably with the Marquis Arconati and his family, including the Count Arrivabene Count Giovanni Arrivabene, a writer on Political Economy. and two other Italian exiles. They live, except in winter, at the Castle of Gaesbeck, about eight miles from Brussels, a fine, large old pile of building, connected in history with the troubles of Holland, and full of recollections of that disastrous period. It is pleasantly situated on the edge of a valley, upon which it looks down, and there they live as happily as exiles can. They were all implicated in the revolutionary movements in Italy, of which Pellico, Confalonieri, etc., were a part, and for the last twelve years Arconati and Arrivabene have been under sentence of death. They are all people of most agreeable intellectual culture, and Arrivabene, Berchet, and Salviati are authors
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
, 13. Hill, Lord, Arthur, 442. Hillard, G. S., 326 note, 391 note. Hillhouse, Mr., 14. Hobhouse, (Sir) John Cam, 165. Hogg, James, 278. Hogg, Mr., 416. Holland, Dr (Sir Henry), 446. Holland House, 295, 408, 418. Holland, Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409. Holland, Third Lord, 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422Holland, Lady, 264 and note, 265, 408, 409. Holland, Third Lord, 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422; Spanish library, 457. Hopkinson, Francis, 15. Hopkinson, Judge, 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., 16. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, 415; debate in, 416. Houston, General S., 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, 156, 157. Hudson River, visits, 386. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, 128-130, 134 and note, 135, 138, Holland, Third Lord, 263, 264, 265, 267, 294, 408, 418, 422; Spanish library, 457. Hopkinson, Francis, 15. Hopkinson, Judge, 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., 16. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, 415; debate in, 416. Houston, General S., 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, 156, 157. Hudson River, visits, 386. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, 128-130, 134 and note, 135, 138, 145, 146, 254, 255, 257, 258 note, 263, 498-501. Humboldt, Madame Wilhelm von, 177, 178. Hume, Colonel, 447. Hunt, Jonathan, 7, 381. Hunt, Leigh, 292, 294. I Infantado Duke del, 206. Irving, Washington, 291, 293, 479, 492. Italians, The, by Mr. Bucke, rejected by a London audience, 291. Italinski, 179. Italy