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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
Countess. Madame Neckar de Saussure. leaves Geneva for Rom. Convent of St. Bernard. Milan. Venn and passed two very happy hours together. Geneva, September 10.—This evening I passed at Mad. R state of society, manners, and improvement in Geneva which deserves notice. In the first place, hi who has been one of the prominent citizens of Geneva since the fall of Bonaparte has permitted him commonly kind to me ever since I have been in Geneva. To-day he invited me to a dinner, where I foparty at Dr. Buttini's, the first physician in Geneva. I found most of the society I met last eveni cousin of Mad. de Stael, who is considered in Geneva but little her inferior in original power of md force in her remarks. To Elisha Ticknor. Geneva, September 19, 1817. I left Paris, as I tol an unfair specimen of the state of letters in Geneva, where they certainly form the first caste in e beautiful banks of the lake. When I came to Geneva, it was on the Swiss side, with the solemn mou[5 more...]