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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11 : (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20 : (search)
Chapter 20:
Habits.
house in Park Street.
hospitality.
Review of Webster's works.
lecture on teaching the living languages.
studies of Milton, Dante, and Shakespeare.
public lectures on Shakespeare.
death of an infant daughter and of an only son.
resignation of Professorship.
departure for Europe.
The next years formed a very happy period in Mr. Ticknor's happy life; for, though checkered like all human lives with some sorrows, even with some acute and lasting griefs, his was, in the main, a remarkably happy life.
Many elements of character and fortune combined to give a serene, well-balanced tone of animated contentment to his whole existence from youth to age. He had a resolute nature and an efficient intellect; he had, also, a deep-seated principle of industry, with a sense of the worth of occupation as a source of pleasure.
In relation to his fixed habit of industry he used often to quote with delight what was once said to him by Judge Prescott, his fr
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21 : (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22 : (search)