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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
ce with the Connecticut. The two last days of this ride were, certainly, the most gay and delightful of the gayest and most delightful journey I ever took in my life. On the afternoon of Saturday, the 16th of June, I rode on in the chaise with Anna, leaving the coach behind, and arrived at Hanover quite early, to see my father the sooner. The first news I heard, in reply to the first question I asked at the inn, was, that he had had an access of paralysis the afternoon previous. I hasteneds his guests. These visits did not, however, disturb the steady course of his industrious life, and he writes in February: I have been very quietly at home all winter; no visiting abroad, much writing of lectures, much studying of Italian between Anna and my nieces, and once a week Artiguenave—who is a first-rate French reader — has read us a French play. In April he says to Mr. Daveis, My lectures have given me a good deal of occupation,—three delivered, and one written, every week,—and besi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
ed a couple of days, and by which I embark with all my household gods for Europe, early in June, to be absent three years, or perhaps four. The immediate cause is Anna's health. We had been talking for many months of the possibility of going two or three years hence; but, as Anna said yesterday, it always seemed so remote and unAnna said yesterday, it always seemed so remote and uncertain, that she had never for a moment regarded it as a reality. But all winter she has failed. . . . . We were, therefore, arranging everything to go to the South, and the West, and anywhere for four or five months. . . . . There was nothing against it [the European tour] but one or two unfulfilled plans of my own, and the wish to have the children a little older, that they might more profit by it. Such things yielded at once to the state of Anna's health, especially as it has failed considerably during the last three weeks. We go to live in different places in Europe, in the quietest and most domestic way,. . . . but to go through as vigorous a cou
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Spanish, 201. Thierry, A, 314 Thiersch, Professor, 114, 115. Thompson, Mr. and Lady Mary, 440. Thomson, Mr., 275, 277, 280. Thorndike, Augustus, 132, 386. Thorndike, Colonel, 371. Thorwaliden, Albert, 177, 178. Thun-Hohenstein, Count von, 504 note, 505-07, 508. Thun-Hohenstein, Countess von, 505, 506, 508. Thun-Hohenstein, Count Franz von, 505. Thun-Hohenstein, Count Friedrich von, 505. Thun-Hohenstein, Count Leo von, 505, 506, 509, 510. Thun-Hohenstein, Countesses Anna and Josephine, 505. Ticknor, Anna Eliot, daughter of G. T., 382, 384; letter to, 397, 410. Ticknor, Elisha, father of George, 1; graduate of Dartmouth College, 1; head of Moore's school, 1; keeps a school in Pittsfield, Mass., 2; head of Franklin School, Boston, 2; author of English Exercises 2; grocer, 2; connection with Fire Insurance Company, Savings Bank, and Boston Primary Schools, 2 and note; retires from business in 1812, 2; dies 1821, 2; his appearance, 3; qualities, 3 and note