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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
Rome. Dante and Papal government. taking the veil in high life. Kestner and Goethe. Cardinal Giustiniani. letter to Mr. Dana. Francis Hare. Sismondi. Mezzo us, and brought with him a portfolio, containing about an hundred letters from Goethe to Mr. Kestner's father and mother, who are the Charlotte and Albert of Werthercome again and read more. This correspondence was published under the title, Goethe and Werther (Stuttgardt, 1854). The story is also told by Mrs. F. Kemble in her this evening and read the rest of what I wanted to hear from his letters about Goethe, Werther, etc. It was very curious and interesting. The fact seems to be that, in the first book of Werther's letters, Werther is undoubtedly Goethe himself, Charlotte is Charlotte Buff, and Albert is Kestner, and much of what is described therre described, often word for word, in Werther, from a letter sent by Kestner to Goethe . . . . February 25.—We took a ride on horseback this morning out at the Por
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
im your reference to Romilly, as a Roland for his Oliver. He is in trouble, too, about a passage in his last volume concerning the Buff and Blue—Mrs. Crewe, true blue—as the Fox colors, which he intimates, you know, to have been taken in compliment to Washington. But, besides that,—as I think,—the Whigs would have been reproached for this assumption of traitor colors in a way that would not now be forgotten; these colors were fashionable earlier. You will find a curious proof of this in Goethe's autobiography,--Dichtung und Wahrheit, Book XII:,—where, speaking of the young Jerusalem as the chief prototype of his Werther, he says that he wore a blue coat, and buff vest and underclothes, with top-boots; a dress, he adds, which had been already introduced into Lower Germany, in Nachahmung der Englander. This was at Wetzlar, in Upper Germany, in 1772, where the fashion evidently attracted notice as a known English one. Washington's cocked hat, and that of our army at the time, I
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
4 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, Wellington, Duke of, T. 62, 64, 65, 296. Wells, Samuel, I. 143. Wells, William, I. 8. Wensleydale, Lady, II 363, 366, 368. Wensleydale, Lord, II. 363, 366, 367, 368, 372. Wentworth House, visits, I. 440-445, II. 392, .393. Werther, Goethe's, I. 12, II. 58, 72. West, Benjamin, I. 63. West, Mr., I 14. Westmoreland, Countess of, II. 77, 80, 82. West Point Examination, I. 372-376. West Point, G. T. visitor to the academy, I. 372. West Point, visits, I. 386, II. 282.