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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Life of George Ticknor. (search)
invited me,—an attention which he showed to no other of his pupils, most of them being too young. I was then seventeen. I met, at these pleasant suppers, Mr. William S. Shaw, the founder of the Athenaeum; Mr. William Wells, a pretty good classical scholar, bred in England, from 1798 to 1800 a tutor in Harvard College; the Rev. Jrett, and sent to New Hampshire, where I knew there was a German Dictionary, and procured it. I also obtained a copy of Goethe's Werther in German (through Mr. William S. Shaw's connivance) from amongst Mr. J. Q. Adams's books, deposited by him, on going to Europe, in the Athenaeum, under Mr. Shaw's care, but without giving him peMr. Shaw's care, but without giving him permission to lend them. I got so far as to write a translation of Werther, but no farther. I was thus occupied through the summer and autumn of 1814. It was all very agreeable. I enjoyed my pursuits and mode of life very much. I had been much in whatever was most agreeable and intellectual in the society of Boston for four y
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Segovia, Bishop of, 218. Segovia, visits, 218. Senior, Nassau William, 407, 412 and note, 451. Senonnes, Viscount de, 255, 262, 263. Servia, life in, 478. Seville, 237-241; Alcazar, 238, 240; Cathedral, 238, 239; people of, 239, 240. Seymour, Mr., 447. Shakespeare, study of, 394; Tieck's reading of, 473, 477, 482; Schlegel's translation of, 468, 483. Sharon, Mass., E. Billings (Mrs. E. Ticknor) born and keeps school in, 3. Sharp, Richard, Conversation, 55, 56. Shaw, William S., founder of the Boston Athenaeum, 8, 12. Shiel, 415. Siddons, Mrs., 55, 56, 66. Sierra Morena, 223. Silliman, Professor B., 14. Simond, M., 153, 179. Simplon, crosses, 160. Sismondi, Mrs., 290. Sismondi, Simonde de, 151, 290, 291, 295, 297, 314. Skene, James, 283. Slavery in the United States, 479. Smidt, Senator, 122, 123. Smith, Benjamin, 175. Smith, Elizabeth, 433. Smith, Professor, Nathan, 14. Smith, Sir, James, 57. Smith, Rev., Sydney, 265, 413, 414, 417, 41