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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
Paris and residence there. A. W. Von Schlegel. Duke and Duchess de Broglie. Humboldt. Helen Maria Williams. Madame de Stael. say. Benjamin Constant. Southey. great talents, wishes to be at once a learned man and a man of the world. M. de Humboldt, therefore, sleeps only when he is weary and has leisure, and if he wakes aOrinoco, and the holy solitudes of nature, and the missionaries. May 16.—M. de Humboldt is certainly one of the most remarkable men I have seen in Europe,—perhaps st, I believe I have found out the cause of my difficulty with the police. M. de Humboldt, having heard of the visitation, called on me this morning, for the expressonstant's. He has lived in Paris fifteen years, and is well known as a spy. M. de Humboldt adds that he is very ill-tempered, and that he never passes an evening in herous or wished to revenge on me the little disputes I had with him,—though M. de Humboldt believes him capable even of this,— but because his bread depends on the i
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
. . Rome is still as much the capital as it was in the times of Hadrian or Leo X. . . . . Among the Germans there is the family of Bunsen, who has married an English woman, and is himself full of good learning and talent; the family of Mad. de Humboldt (in conversation called the Mad. de Stael of Germany), who collects about her every evening the best of her nation, especially the artists Thorwaldsen, Lund, Schadow, etc., and to whose society I owe some of the pleasantest hours I have passeds burning the Papal bull, got up right under the nose of the Pope! It was very curious. It was in October, 1818. I had just arrived in Rome, coming from Germany, and was very much among the Germans,—with Niebuhr and Bunsen, Brandes and Mad. de Humboldt. Niebuhr thought of getting up the celebration, and at first intended to have it in his own palazzo; but he changed the plan, and arranged that it should be held in a large room at Brandes's lodgings, he being connected with the legation. Th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
side of the mountain, by a fine bright evening, and descending partly down on the other side, came to St. Ildefonso,—or, as it is commonly called here, La Granja,—at ten o'clock, severely chilled, though in the plain the heat of the dog-star still rages; for St. Ildefonso is situated where no other monarch's palace is, in the region of the clouds, since it is higher up than the crater of Vesuvius, and precisely at that elevation where the great clouds are commonly formed in summer. See Humboldt, Configuration du sol de l'espagne. I sent my letter of introduction to Count Guaiaqui, a Peruvian nobleman of talent and an immense fortune, who was six years captain-general of his country, and has since refused the viceroyalty of Mexico. He called on me immediately, and brought the governor of the place, who offered me all sorts of civilities, and arranged my visit here, and at Segovia, in the pleasantest manner. The following morning I began my operations, conducted by Count Guaiaqui,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
ldt to Mr. Ticknor, which have a pleasant flavor and hints of character. M. de Broglie says— Je suis au desespoir, mon cher federaliste, de vous avoir encore une fois manque de parole. Ce n'est pas ma faute. J'ai éte ce matin, visiter une prison hors de Paris; je comptais être revenu á temps; et les heures nous ont gagnes au point, que j'arrive en ce moment. Venez nous voir ce soir. Nous reprendrons jour et heure. Ne soyez pas trop en colere. Tout à vous. V. Broglie. 5h. 1/2 M. de Humboldt writes thus:— Je vais reiterer une demande bien indiscrete, monsieur. Jaetais venu ce matin vous offrir mes amities, et vous prier, de vouloir bien vous charger de quelques feuilles imprimees, pour la maison de Sir Joseph Banks. Le celebre botaniste M. Brown, qui a éte a la Nouvelle Hollande, et qui est le Bibliothecaire de Mr. Banks, me demande avec instance, le 4me volume de mes Nova Genera Plantarum, qui renferme les Composees que nous avons decouvertes, M. Bonpland et moi, e
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 25: (search)
he came in his carriage to take us to see them. First, he carried us to the Bau-Akademie,—the Academy of Architecture, an institution which has been arranged and formed by the King to suit Schinkel. . . . From the Academy of Architecture, M. de Humboldt carried us to the University, a large and massive palace, built by Frederic II. for his brother Henry, 1757-64, and given by the present King for purposes of knowledge. His object was to show us the collections in mineralogy, geology, and the halls of birds really wonderful. Here Humboldt left us, to keep an appointment at the palace, reminding us that we should meet at dinner. . . . One thing struck me very much this morning; I mean the great deference shown everywhere to M. de Humboldt. Our valet-de-place and the people of the inn where we lodge, look upon us as quite different persons, I am sure, since he has chaperoned us; and nothing could exceed the bows and the excellencies with which he was received everywhere. Even
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
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 delHumboldt, 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, visits, 160-184. J Jackson, General, Andrew, 480. Jackson, Judge, 40, 371. Jakobs, Professor, 111, 112. Jamieson, Robert, 275. Jarvis, Charles, 20. Jefferson, Thomas, President of the United States, 16, 53, 110, 212, 302 note, 303, 345, 346, 377; visits, 34 38, 348, 349; his philosophy, 37; letters from, 300-302; opinion of Bonaparte, 301; pl