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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 14 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
thought, would never be without good lawyers, but would urgently need scholars, teachers, and men of letters. From Madame de Stael's De l'allemagne (1813) Ticknor had got an intimation of the intellectual mastery of the Germans; he elected therefore to study in Germany, and particularly at Gottingen. Through the summer and autumn of 1814 he worked hard at German, borrowing a grammar from Edward Everett, sending to New Hampshire, where he knew there was a German dictionary, and translating Werther from John Quincy Adams's copy, stored at the Athenaeum. Before going abroad, though, he must make the American grand tour to Washington and Virginia. During the winter of 1814-15 he travelled by slow stages and sometimes under difficulties as far as Richmond, everywhere supplied with introductions to and from eminent persons such as John Adams, President Madison, and Thomas Jefferson. He met, among others, Eli Whitney, Robert Lenox, John Randolph, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton; att
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
92 Webbe, John, 426 Weber, 467 Webster, Daniel, 101, 337, 346, 347 Webster, Noah, 21, 400, 401, 418, 446, 470, 475, 475-478, 479, 541, 546, 548, 557, 558, 563, 566 Webster, Pelatiah, 429 Weeping willow, the, 512 Weevilly Wheat, 516 Weitling, Wilhelm, 344 Welb, 589 Welcker, 461, 462 We'll all go down to Rowser's, 516 Welles, Gideon, 351 Wells, David A., 354, 355, 439, 440 Wells, H. G., 419 Wendell, Barrett, 417, 423 We're marching Round the Levy, 516 Werther, 453 Wesley, 500 West, Max, 359 West, Rebecca, 99 Westcott, Edward Noyes, 95 Western America including California and Oregon, 136 Western literary magazine and Institute of instruction, 404 Western Wilds, 143 Weston, George M., 344 Westward Ho! 55 Westward movement, the, 187 Westways, 90 Wet days at Edgewood, 111 Weyl, Walter, 365 Weyman, Stanley, 287 What I saw in California in 1846–; 1847, 142 What is Darwinism? 209 What is man? 20 What is vital in