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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
thdrew himself rather violently from the government, and is seen now only as a matter of ceremony at the palace. If, however, the time should come when liberal principles again shall prevail in Tuscany, I doubt not he would exercise a controlling influence in its affairs. He savors most strongly of the noble old stock of the Italians in Italy's best days, and while he is very frank, free, and winning in conversation, has all the air and bearing of one born to command. In a letter to Mr. Prescott, written six weeks later, Mr. Ticknor thus sums up his experiences in Florence:— . . . . The society I found still more changed, but not for the better. Of foreign, there was a good deal; but we cared little about it, for it was merely fashionable. Of Italian there was very little. The Marchioness Lenzoni——who, besides being the last descendant of one branch of the Medicis, owns and carefully preserves at Certaldo the house which Boccaccio possessed, and where he died—opened her s
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
ything in France, its government, its society, its arts, the modes of life, literature, and the morals and religion of the country, are in a transition state. Nothing is settled there. Nothing, I think, is likely to be in our time. To William H. Prescott, Boston. Paris, February 20, 1838. . . . . I have no time to write you, as I should be glad to, about ourselves. We have made a genuine Parisian winter of it, and are not at all sorry that it is drawing to a close. For two months I hwe feel more and more impatient to get home. I hope we shall be able to embark before midsummer, so as to get a good passage, and see you all the sooner. Love to all We are all quite well; but I am grievously pushed for time. G. T. To William H. Prescott, Boston. Paris, March 5, 1838. my dear William,—I send you a single line by this packet, to let you know that three days ago I received from Bentley the six copies of your Ferdinand and Isabella. One I sent instantly to Julius, Dr.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
not seen. He is the same man he always was and always will be, with the coldest and most disagreeable manners I have ever seen. I wanted to talk with him about Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, and by a sort of violence done to myself, as well as to him, I did so. He said he had seen it, but had heard no opinion about it. I gav Young Ellice and his beautiful. highbred wife, Allen, and some others. Pozzo di Borgo was brilliant, and Lady Holland disagreeable. Lord Holland talked about Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, as did John Allen, and gave it high praise; Allen pronouncing the chapters on the Constitutions of Castile and Arragon—particularly thd Brougham; the theatre and Macready; reviewing, apropos of which the old reviewers hit one another hard; the literature of the day, which was spoken of lightly; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, which Lord Lansdowne said he had bought from its reputation, and which Milman in his quiet way praised. . . . . April 3.—Breakfasted
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
was a larger party than is quite common at that very agreeable round table . . . . . We dined, of course, in the grand Gilt Room, and had at table Mr. Ellice, one of Lord Melbourne's first cabinet, and brother-in-law of Lord Grey; Lady Cowper and her daughter, Lady Fanny,—mater pulchra, filia pulchrior; Lord John Russell, the Atlas of this unhappy administration; . . . . . Lord and Lady Morley; Stanley, of the Treasury; Gayangos,—the Spaniard I was desirous to see, because he is to review Prescott's book; and Sir Francis Head . . . . . It was certainly as agreeable as a party well could be. I took pains to get between Head and Gayangos at dinner, because I wanted to know them both. The Spaniard——about thirty-two years old, and talking English like a native, almost—I found quite pleasant, and full of pleasant knowledge in Spanish and Arabic, and with the kindliest good — will towards Ferdinand and Isabella. Sir Francis Head, on the contrary,—a little short man, with quick,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
ss Edgeworth, Mr. Legare, Prince John of Saxony, Count Circourt, Mr. Prescott, Mr. Kenyon, and others. death of Mr. Legare. Mr. Ticknor's d, and because some of them, like Dr. Channing, Mr. Norton, and Mr. Prescott, who have grown out of this state of things, and Mr. Webster, anntimate friends; the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Mr. William H. Prescott, of this city, a work which has obtained great success in roud old courtier, and fully confirms the ballad. . . . . Gray, Prescott, and the rest of tutta quella schiera,—as you call it, and you migst Saturday morning, and the same day there dined with me Allston, Prescott, Longfellow, and Hillard, the editor of Spenser. You ought to hav, and had the Prescotts and Gray, Judge and Mrs. Prescott, Mr. W. H. Prescott and his daughter, and Mr. F. C. Gray. till day before yesterdeeable, as well as more picturesque, than I expected. To William H. Prescott, Nahant. Woods' Hole, Sunday, August 14, 1842. my dear W
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
ead to further troubles and changes. . . . . We are most anxious about Italy, least so about Germany; but we expect the people will everywhere demand concessions from their princes, and obtain them. Tell me how much of this is true. . . . . I am greatly obliged to you for the abstract of your lecture before the Royal Institution, but am sorry you do not like to have it reprinted here. . . . I intended to have had the pleasure of telling you myself about my Spanish Literary History. But Prescott, I find, has done it a little before there is anything to tell. The truth is, I have finished the first draft of the work, and it has just been copied out into a fair hand. But it will still be long before I shall have corrected it and prepared it for the hands of the printer; a task I cannot find it in my heart to hurry, so agreeable is it to me. Agassiz continues to flourish, and enjoys the same sort of popular favor he has from the first. Professor Louis Agassiz came to Boston in
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
brary. manuscript of the work submitted to Mr. Prescott. publication, in New York and London, in 1r anybody. Irving will do all he can to help Prescott and myself, for his kindness may be entirely rons are in Boston, as I hear from our friend Prescott, quite well and very happy. We are very glad history of Spanish literature. As, however, Prescott's library, and some public libraries here, cown by complaints in the organs of digestion. Prescott gets on well with his Conquest of Peru, and wow faithful he was, and how frank. Life of Prescott, 4to ed. p. 284. Returning the manuscript wited. . . . . Always faithfully yours, William H. Prescott. In a part of Mr. Prescott's letterMr. Prescott's letter there is a reference to one element in Mr. Ticknor's plan which guided him in the composition of hiafter its publication, we find, therefore, Mr. Prescott In the North American Review. This was the last article Mr. Prescott ever wrote for a periodical. See Life of Prescott. remarking on the p[6 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
ything of the sort ever printed among us. Above five thousand copies have been sold. I trust you have read it . . . . . Prescott is well, and has in press the first two volumes of his Philip II. We see him almost daily, and he is as fresh as ever, ding to it the anecdote about old Gaisford and the Bibliotheque Nationale. I have just been reading the first volume of Prescott's Philip II. down to the middle of the War of the Netherlands. The early chapters about the abdication of Charles, etcst regards. . . . . Pleasant letters came from the Lyells, last steamer, and all accounts announce the entire success of Prescott's book. Yours faithfully, Geo. Ticknor. To King John, of Saxony. this Prince had come to the throne, on the delf remains to be seen, but I think he will make fewer mistakes than they have made for him. The Heads are well; so is Prescott; and so, I think, are all your friends here. We are eminently strong and stout, and the young couple as happy as a hone
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
d a favorite niece of Mrs. Ticknor, Miss Ellen Dwight. Mr. Ticknor, too, was very fond of Mrs. Twisleton, and, before there had been any question of this marriage, Mr. Twisleton had been much liked by him and all his family. These interesting and highly valued persons are now dead, and their loss has been deeply felt on either side of the ocean, for both had made themselves loved in the new circles they had entered by their marriage. and from thence Mr. Ticknor wrote as follows:— To W. H. Prescott. London, July 17, 1856. my dear William,—You have heard, I dare say, of our safe arrival, and perhaps something more; for though I have had time to write only one letter,—it was to William Dexter,—enough has been written by the party to tell all that anybody can desire to know about us. When the cars stopped, the first thing I saw was Lady Lyells charming face on the platform, to welcome us, and during the eighteen days that have followed since, we have had nothing but kindness a
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
. winter in Rome. Florence, Turin, Paris. letters to Mr. Prescott, Count Circourt, and Mr. Greenough. To William H. Prescott. Rome, November 24, 1856. Dear William,—. . . . We have had delicious journeyings, fine weather without interrfill the gap between Ferdinand and Isabella and Philip II. . . . . Ma basta. Yours always, Geo. Ticknor To William H. Prescott. Rome, January 25, 1857. Dear William,—I have received your characteristic and agreeable letter of December 8,full. Are you not glad? Love to Susan, and a great deal of it, and to Elizabeth. Mrs. James Lawrence, daughter of Mr. Prescott. We think and talk a great deal of you, and long to see you. Always yours, G. T. To Count Adolphe de Circourt. s administration of the country other than dangerous to our peace, both domestic and foreign, I do not believe. To W. H. Prescott. Florence, May 8, 1857. my dear William,—I have to thank you for two most agreeable mementos of kindness; one a l<
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