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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
d America. I was quite surprised, for instance, to find that he understood very well the whole question of the United States Bank. . . . . The young monk Raslhuber, who has lately passed a couple of years in Vienna, at the observatory there, . . . . is quite fire-new in all his notions. . . . . In all three of these monasteries, as well as in the two or three monks I saw at Heiligenkreuz, I have found a liberal and even republican tone the prevalent one; great admiration of America, etc. July 7.—After breakfast this morning we took leave of the kind, but rather dull old Prelate, and were followed to our carriage by the monks with all sorts of good wishes. The boys of the gymnasium, too, were out in great numbers to see off the strangers who had come from so far, and, by the time we had passed the outer court, we had been saluted by nearly the whole rank and file of the establishment. Until I visited these three great monasteries, I did not suppose that any so large, so rich, an
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
dress for dinner at Lord Fitzwilliam's. The family portion of the party was large, as you might expect. But beside this we had Wilde, a Queen's Counsel of eminence; Lord Monteagle, an excellent talker; Lord Burlington, a man of known ability, but shy; and Bouverie and his wife. . . . . The conversation was good and strong, chiefly in the hands of Lord Monteagle,—Spring Rice,—who continued it afterwards in the saloon, where we became so animated that I did not get home till half past 11. July 7.—. . . Ellen had a breakfast-party this morning; Senior, Merivale, Godley,—our old friend, Mr. Godley, a man of most agreeable qualities and culture, had been in Boston a few years before this time.—Adderley, Trench,—Dean of Westminster in place of poor Buckland, one of the men I am most glad to meet,—and Sparks. . . . . The talk was excellent. Ellen was charming at the head of her own table. . . . . July 8.—The letters came this morning by the early post. Thank Heaven, ever