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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
hour this morning very pleasantly indeed with Sir Humphry Davy, from whom I have received great courtesy and kindness. He told me that when he was at Coppet, Mad. de Stael showed him part of a work on England similar in plan to her De l'allemagne, but which will be only about two thirds as long. Murray told me she had offered it to him, and had the conscience to ask four thousand guineas for it. When I came away, Sir Humphry gave me several letters for the Continent, and among them one for Canova, one for De la Rive at Geneva, and one for Mad. de Stael, which I was very glad to receive from him,—for there is nobody in England whom Mad. de Stael more valued,—though I have already two other introductions to her. I parted from Sir Humphry with real regret. He goes out of town to-morrow. We dined to-day with Mr. Manning,—brother of Mrs. Benjamin Vaughan,—a very intelligent gentleman. He told us a story of Bonaparte, which, from the source from which he had it, is likely to be true
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
e two very happy evenings, which I shall always remember with grateful pleasure. Count Cicognara gave me a letter to her, and she immediately told me that her house, which is one of the finest palaces in Bologna, would be open to me every evening. She is still young, not above thirty, I should think, very beautiful, with uncommonly sweet and engaging manners and talents, which make her at once the centre of literary and elegant society in Bologna, and the friend and correspondent of Monti, Canova, Brougham, and many others of the first men of the times we live in. Last evening there were few persons at her coterie. Only two or three men of letters, a young Greek from Corcyra, a Count Marchetti and his pretty wife, Lord John Russell, and a few others. The conversation was chiefly literary, and so adroitly managed by Mad. Martinetti as to make it general, but as two of the persons present were strangers it began to fail at last, and she resorted to the very games we play in America t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
orm a society such as no other capital can boast. . . . . My chief occupation now is Italian literature, in which I have nearly finished all I proposed to myself. . . . . The only difficulty I find is in speaking, and this I really know not how I can get over. With my servant and such persons I speak nothing else, of course, but there the thing ends; for, though I go every evening into society somewhere, I never hear a word of Italian any more than I should in Kamtchatka, unless it be at Canova's, and sometimes at the Portuguese Ambassador's. It is not, in fact, the language of conversation and intercourse anywhere, and therefore I can never acquire the facility and fluency I have in German and French. My only consolation is, that what I lose in Italian I gain in French. However, I do not give up yet. I have actually engaged a man to come to me six hours a week. . . . . But, as to engage a man to talk with me would be the surest way to stop all conversation, I have taken a profe
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
y, 60, 63, 66, 67, 68, 410 and note, 448. Byron, Lord, 54, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66-68; anecdote of, 110, 114, 165, 166, 411, 446. C Caballero Fern an, pseud., 236 note. Cabot, George, 12, 13, 14, 396. Cadaval, Duchess de, 249. Cadiz, 193; visits, 236. Calasanzios Convent, 195. Calhoun, John C., 349, 381. Cambridge, England, visits, 270, 271. Camoens, 244, 252. Campagna of Rome, 168. Campbell, Sir, John, 245, 246. Campbell, Thomas, 62, 63, 65, 282, 410. Canova, Antonio, 172. Carroll, Archbishop, 41. Carroll, Charles, 41. Carus, Dr., 459, 473, 475, 482. Cassel, visits, 121. Castel Branco, Baron. See Lacerda. Castro, Don Joao de, 246. Chalmers, Rev. Dr., 405. Chaloner, Mr., 443. Channing, Edward T., 9, 12, 26; letters to,. 30, 42, 83, 89, 96, 107, 118, 183. Channing, Dr., Walter, 148, 391; letters to, 94, 149. Channing, Mrs., Walter, letters to, 148, 188. Channing, Rev. William E., 17, 84, 96, 178, 316, 327, 382, 391, 405, 479.