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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
Chapter 8: London. Henry Nelson Coleridge. Hallam. Elizabeth Barrett. Lockhart. Jeffrey. Sir Edmund Head. story of Canning. story of the Duke of Sussex. Milman. Elphinstone. Cambridge. Whewell. Sedgwick. Smyth. journey North. Journal. March 19.—We had a very good passage across the Channel. . . . . Notwithstanding a little regret at leaving the picturesque old Continent, and a good deal of regret at leaving a few friends, and the easy society of the salons quiet way praised. . . . . April 3.—Breakfasted at Dr. Holland's, where I met only Hallam. Of course I had a most pleasant time, for there are hardly better talkers in London. Dr. Holland came fresh from a professional visit to the Duke of Sussex, whom he had found reading his Hebrew Bible, whose margins were filled with his Highness's notes; a rare instance of royal exegesis, but I apprehend rather a whim of the Duke than the result of very solid learning. Dr. Holland told us a somewhat