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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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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
s to come again and read more. This correspondence was published under the title, Goethe and Werther (Stuttgardt, 1854). The story is also told by Mrs. F. Kemble in her Year of Consolation. . . . me again this evening and read the rest of what I wanted to hear from his letters about Goethe, Werther, etc. It was very curious and interesting. The fact seems to be that, in the first book of Werther's letters, Werther is undoubtedly Goethe himself, Charlotte is Charlotte Buff, and Albert is Kestner, and much of what is described there really passed. In the second book Werther is undoubteWerther is undoubtedly the young Jerusalem, Wilhelm Jerusalem, son of a German theologian. who was a Secretary of Legation, and met the affronts there described, and whose death and last days are described, often word for word, in Werther, from a letter sent by Kestner to Goethe . . . . February 25.—We took a ride on horseback this morning out at the Porta Pia . . . . Afterwards I made a long visit to Cardin
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
the Buff and Blue—Mrs. Crewe, true blue—as the Fox colors, which he intimates, you know, to have been taken in compliment to Washington. But, besides that,—as I think,—the Whigs would have been reproached for this assumption of traitor colors in a way that would not now be forgotten; these colors were fashionable earlier. You will find a curious proof of this in Goethe's autobiography,--Dichtung und Wahrheit, Book XII:,—where, speaking of the young Jerusalem as the chief prototype of his Werther, he says that he wore a blue coat, and buff vest and underclothes, with top-boots; a dress, he adds, which had been already introduced into Lower Germany, in Nachahmung der Englander. This was at Wetzlar, in Upper Germany, in 1772, where the fashion evidently attracted notice as a known English one. Washington's cocked hat, and that of our army at the time, I have supposed, might have been taken from the hat of Frederick II. and his officers. At any rate, they are the same, and the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
I. 328, 331. Weimar, visits, I. 113. Welcker, Professor, I. 121, 454, II. 101, 325, 328. Weld, Isaac, I. 420, 424, 425. Weld, Mr., II. 165. Wellesley, Lady, Georgina, I. 189, 211, 306. Wellesley, Sir Henry (Lord Cowley), I. 188, 189, 209, 295. Wellington, Duke of, T. 62, 64, 65, 296. Wells, Samuel, I. 143. Wells, William, I. 8. Wensleydale, Lady, II 363, 366, 368. Wensleydale, Lord, II. 363, 366, 367, 368, 372. Wentworth House, visits, I. 440-445, II. 392, .393. Werther, Goethe's, I. 12, II. 58, 72. West, Benjamin, I. 63. West, Mr., I 14. Westmoreland, Countess of, II. 77, 80, 82. West Point Examination, I. 372-376. West Point, G. T. visitor to the academy, I. 372. West Point, visits, I. 386, II. 282. Wharncliffe, Lord, II. 482. Whately, Archbishop, I. 412 and note, 413, 451. Wheaton, Henry, I. 494, 496, 499, 501. Wheelock, Dr., President of Dartmouth College, I. 5, 6. Wheelock, Mrs., I. 5. Whewell, William, I. 420, 421, 422,