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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
ought me to him, he ordered his carriage and took me to Geneva, to a ball at Mad. de Saussure's, a distant relation of the famous De Saussure who first ascended Mont Blanc. I found there many English, and much of the fashionable and respectable society of the city; and I observed that the ladies were handsomer than at Paris, but morning. On the 16th of September Mr. Ticknor joined Dr. Edward Reynolds, Mr. Edward Brooks of Boston, and Dr. Wagner of South Carolina, in an excursion to Mont Blanc, which occupied three days, and excited and delighted him intensely. His description of these scenes, so new to him, is full, animated, and glowing. In the ere is another city of twenty-five thousand inhabitants in Europe or America of which this could be said. But I forget my story. Five days ago I went to see Mont Blanc and the great glacier of Chamouni. I dare not attempt to tell you what I saw and felt in these strange solitudes, where the genius and power of ages and genera
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ith, William, 15. Meredith, William, Jr., 15. Meyer, 115. Mezzofanti, Abbate, 166. Michaelis, J. D., 76, 77, 127. Milan, visits, 161. Millbank, Sir R and Lady, 67, 68. Miltitz, Baron, 501. Milton, study of, 394. Milton, Viscount, death of, 456. Minto, Countess of, 408, 412. Minto, Earl of, 408. Mitford, Miss, 418, 419 and note. Mitscherlich, Professor, 92. Moller, 124. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, 271. Monroe, J., President of the United States, 349. Mont Blanc, 154, 156. Montgomery, James, 440, 441. Montgomery, Mrs., 386. Monticello, 30; visits, 34-38. Montijo. See Teba. Montmorency, Duc Mathieu de, 304 and note. Montmorency-Laval. See Laval. Moore's Charity School, Elisha Ticknor head of, 1; connected with Dartmouth College, 2. Moore, Thomas, 420, 422, 425. Moratin, L. F., 252. Moreau, General, 488. Morehead, Rev Dr., 280, 414. Morgan, Lady, 425. Morley, First Earl and Countess of, 407. Mornington, Countess of, 295,