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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
nd Stirling. We pushed our tables together and had a jolly dinner, at which I left them and went to the House of Commons. I gave my card to the doorkeeper, and desired him to send it in to the Speaker, —our old friend Denison,—who had told me I should have the seat of a distinguished foreigner last Monday night; and I was not a little surprised and pleased to find he had just sent out an order to the same effect for to-night. So that I walked right in. The debate had been opened, and Gladstone soon rose, the person I had mainly come to hear. He spoke about three quarters of an hour, and was much cheered. His manner is perfectly natural, almost conversational, and he never hesitates for the right word, or fails to have the most lucid and becoming arrangement of his argument. If anything, he lacked force. But his manner was so gentlemanlike, and so thoroughly appropriate to a great deliberative body, that I could not help sighing to think we have so little like it in our legis
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
traitened circumstances and little known, —I mean to go. I will not disguise from you, however, that Mrs. Ticknor and Anna, without whom, and their influence, I should not move, want a spree, and that Everett has entered into a bond to do all the talking. In this way I count upon a good time. . . . . I had a letter yesterday from Lord Carlisle. He seems to think that busy times are on them in Europe, and rejoices—as we do here --that there are no complications with the United States. Gladstone, too, he praises, as Reinike says, utermaten; but throws in a little doubt whether his judgment is equal to his genius and virtue. How striking it is, that two such scholars as he and Lewis should have made such capital Chancellors of the Exchequer! I think either of them could, while in office, have stood successfully for a scholarship at Oxford. But what is Lewis doing with Babrius, and what set him out to do anything with him? I only know the booksellers announcement. To Sir Edmu
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
87. German literature, I. 87-89, 118-120; republic of letters, 99-102. German metaphysics, I. 96-99. German political and moral state, I. 102, 103. German Universities, I. 89, 90, 102. Gesenius, W., I. 111. Gibraltar, visits, I. 235, 236. Gibson, John, II. 360, 399. Gibson, Miss, Il 332. Gifford, William, I. 58, 60, 62, 294. Gilbert, Davies, I. 405, II. 182. Girod de lAin, II 131. Giustiniani, Prince, Nuncio, I. 188, 193, 194 note, II 73, 74, 79, 85. Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., II. 378, 425. Glenelg, Lord, II 362, 363, 365, 366, 371. Gloucester, Duchess of, II. 146. Godley, J. R, II 358, 363, 368 Godwin, William, and Mrs. W., I. 130, 294. Goethe, Wolfgang A. von, I. 113, 114, 115, 165, 211, 455, 490 note, 500. Goldsborough, Capt. U. S. N., II. 310. Goltz, Count, I 122. Gonzales, librarian, Madrid, I. 197. Gott, Messrs., I. 438 Gottingen, I. 11, 395; G T. arrives at, 69; life there, 70-107, 116-121; description of, 74, 75.