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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
lemn scene, and became well the man and his position in society. May 21.—Immediately after prayers and breakfast Lord Spencer invited us to take a walk and see the place. We went first to the village, . . . . afterwards to the church, which can be traced back to the fourteenth century, which, with its graveyard, is a picturesque object on all sides. In one of the chapels, or chancels, the Spencers lie buried, from soon after 1500 to the last Earl and Countess. The park is the same John Evelyn describes, and different monuments in it, from 1567, show when different woods, still subsisting, were planted, and by whom . . . . . It is, too, the scene of Ben Jonson's beautiful masque The Satyr, which was performed amidst its shrubbery when the Queen and son of James I. were entertained here on their way to London in 1603. Indeed, Althorp has always been poetic ground; . . . . but, as Gibbon says, the brightest jewel in the coronet of the Spencers is the Faery Queen . . . . . Our
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
at Earl of Strafford and his friends, of which Lord Fitzwilliam has eight or ten, all autographs; and in talking with him about that stirring period of English history, with which he seems to be as familiar as we are with what has passed in our own times. Some of the private letters of Strafford to his agent, the manager of his Yorkshire estates, and some about his wife's health, are very curious. Those on political matters are grand, strong, decisive, as he was himself. I do not know but Evelyn was right, when he called him the wisest head in Europe. August 15.—. . . . After breakfast, I went with Lady Charlotte over some parts of the house that I cared to see again, looked at some of the fine pictures of the Italian school,—the Salvators, the so-called Raffaelle, the Titians,—and then the portraits of Strafford and his friends by Vandyck, which are certainly among the best Vandycks td be seen anywhere . . . . . But when I had taken this long walk through the interminable series<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
Madrid, L 196. De Bresson, I. 601. De Candolle, A. P., I. 154, 156. Decazes, Count (Duke), I. 253, 254, 256, II 106, 119, 136. D'Eckstein, Baron, II. 125, 127. De Crollis, II. 69. De Gerando, Baron, II. 130, 141. Dehn, Professor, II. 331. De la Rive, Auguste, II. 346, 347. De la Rive, President, I. 152, 153, 164, 156, II. 37. Delessert, Baron, II. 133, 137. Delessert, Madame, Francois, II. 137. De Metz, II. 137. Denison, Mr., II. 169. Denison, Right Hon. Evelyn (Lord Ossington), I. 408 note, II. 324, 378, 482. De Pradt, I. 257 and note, 263. De Saussure, Madame, I. 153. De Saussure, Madame, Necker, I. 155 and note. Devonshire, Duchess of, I. 177, 180, 266. Devrient, Emil, I. 483. Dewey, Rev., Orville, II 273. Dexter, Mrs. W. S., II. 298 note, 321, 341, 363, 354, .356, 358, 366, 369, 381, 455, 468, 470, 478; letters to, II. 327, 335. Dexter, Samuel, I. 9, 10 note, 20, 39, 40, 41 note. Dexter, William Sohier, II. 321, 322 an