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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
almost any man of his time. . . . . I dined with Prof. Sprengel. The dinner was poor,—such an one, perhaps, as few German professors would have been humble enough to have asked a stranger to; but, what I have not found before in a single instance, he made no apologies. The consequence was, that I was well contented, and had leisure to admire the extent of his literary knowledge, which, without the least show, was gradually opened to me. After dinner he carried me to his neighbor, La Fontaine's, author of a great number of romances, one of which, The Village Curate, has been republished in America. He is sixty or sixty-five, lives very pleasantly just outside the town, on the beautiful banks of the Saal. His mode of life is rather curious. He is in the church, but his place is merely nominal, and to support himself in living as he likes he writes. This he does not find pleasant, and therefore writes no more than is necessary. Twice in the year he labors night and day, pro
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
s., John, 456. Kestner, Charlotte Buff, 78. King, Rufus, 350, 351. Kingsley, Professor, 14. Kirkland, President of Harvard College, letters to, 321-323, 332, 355, 360, 368. Klopstock, F. G., 125. Knapp, Professor, 112, 113. Krause of Weisstropp, 476. L Laboucheri, Henry (Lord Taunton), 408, 411. La Carolina, 223. Lacerda, 246, 247, 249. Lacretelle, Charles, 133-135, 139. Lafayette, General Marquis de, 139, 143, 161, 152, 155, 257, 263, 344 and note, 350, 351. La Fontaine, Auguste, 112. Lagrange, visits, 151, 152. La Granja. See St. Ildefonso. Lamartine, A. de, 470 note. Lamb, Charles, 294. Lansdowne, Marchioness of, 413, 415. Lansdowne, Marquess of, 263, 264, 430. La Place, Marquis de, 255. Lardner, Dr., Dionysius, 425 and note. Lauderdale, Lord, 264. Lausanne, visits, 152, 155. Laval, Montmorency, Duc Adrien de, 128, 137, 188, 189, 193, 194 note, 204 note, 209, 210, 212-214, 218, 258, 295, 309, 311; letters from, 303, 305; d