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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource] 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 4 2 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
erson and in letters; Lord Guilford (Frederick North), a man of more learning, and whose active benevolence will do more for Greece than Gell's pretensions and showy books; Randohr, the Prussian Minister; the Marquis de Sommariva, a Milanese and a kind of Maecenas of the arts now; and Mr. Benjamin Smith, son of the member from Norwich, who is here with his sister for his health. I always had a plate at their table, and generally met somebody that interested or instructed me: such as Sir William Cumming, a Scotchman of talent; the famous Azzelini, who was with Bonaparte in Egypt, and gave me once a curious account of the shooting the prisoners and poisoning the sick at Jaffa; Miss Lydia White, the fashionable blue-stocking; and many others of the same sort, so that the two or three days in the week I dined there were very pleasantly passed. On the 28th of February Mr. Ticknor left Naples and returned to Rome. To Elisha Ticknor. Rome, March 3, 1818. . . . . My visit at Napl
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
at of a boy of fifteen, and an open enthusiasm for all good knowledge, as great as if he were beginning life instead of closing it. . . . . I passed two or three afternoons with him. His conversation was always without effort or pretension, and yet full of knowledge, elegant, and producing a charming effect. I think he came nearer to my notion of the character of Mr. H., as Mackenzie has drawn the better parts of it, than anybody I ever met. I breakfasted with Mackenzie one morning at Lady Cumming's. He is now old, but a thin, active, lively little gentleman, talking fast and well upon all common subjects, and without the smallest indication of the Man of Feeling about him. . . . . While we were at breakfast Lord Elgin came in, a man about fifty, and as fat, round, stupid-looking a man as can well be found. The little he said justified what his appearance promised. . . . . There were other persons whom I knew and to whose houses I went,—Colonel Ellice and the Earl of Wemyss among
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
3 note. Cooke, G. F., 53 note, 127, 473. Copleston, Mr., 405. Cordova, visits, 224-228; cathedral-mosque of, 224, 225; hermits of, 226, 227; society in, 227, 228. Correa de Serra, Abbe, 16 and note. Cowper, Countess, 408, 409, 412. Cowper, Earl, 408. Crampton, (Sir) Philip, 420. Cranbourne, Lord, 268. Cranston, G., 277. Craufurd, Mr., 270. Craufurd, Sir J., 270. Craven, Mr., 175. Creighton, Sir, Alexander, 421, 422. Creuzer, G. F., 125. Crillon, Duc de, 255. Cumming, Sir, William, 176. Curran, John Philpot, 294. Curtis, Augustus, 4. Curtis, Benjamin, first husband of Mrs. E. Ticknor, 3; graduate of Harvard College, 3; surgeon in Revolutionary Army, 4 and note; physician in Boston, 4; dies young, 4; father of Mrs. William H. Woodward, Benjamin, Harriet, and Augustus Curtis, grandfather of B. R. and G. T. Curtis, 4. Curtis, Benjamin, son of Dr. B. C. and Mrs. Elizabeth Billings Curtis, 4. Curtis, Benjamin R., 4. Curtis, C. P., 316 note. Curtis, Eli