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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
iend; when I was walking with him I loved to meet those who knew me; as his companion I felt myself welcome wherever I went. Mr. Cogswell, then twenty-eight years old, had already seen the world, and endured severe trials. Another was Francis Calley Gray, whose immense and varied stores of accurate knowledge were scarcely made available to any except those who enjoyed his personal acquaintance; but whose conversation, enriched by them, was invaluable to his friends, among whom none was more faithful, or in more constantly familiar relations, than Mr. Ticknor. In the Preface to his History of Spanish Literature, Mr. Ticknor calls Mr. F. C. Gray a scholar who should permit the world to profit more than it does, by the large resources of his accurate and tasteful learning; and Mr. Prescott said of him, I think he was the most remarkable man I ever knew, for variety and fulness of information, and a perfect command of it. He was a walking encyclopedia. I have seen many men who ha
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ves at, 69; life there, 70-107, 116-121; description of, 74, 75; leaves there, 121. Gottingen University, 70, 72, 75, 76, 82; during the French War, 83, 84; Literary Club, 85; secret societies, 90-93. Gourieff, Count, 487. Graham, Lady, James, 407. Grammont, Duchesse de, 257. Granada, 193; visits, 228-232; Archbishop of, 228, 229 and note, 232; Cathedral of, 229. Grant, Mrs., Anne, of Laggan, 274, 278 and note, 279. Grassi, Padre, 193 note. Graves, Doctor, 420, 421. Gray, Francis Calley, 31, 318 and note, 328, 871. Gray, Thomas, 285. Gregoire, Count, Bishop, 130, 143. Grey, Earl, 295, 408. Grey, Sir, George, 411. Griffiths, Professor, 419. Griscom, Professor, 298. Grisi, Giulia, 407, 413, 436. Grote, George, 415. Guadiana River, 222 and note, 242. Guaiaqui, Count, 217, 218. Guilford, Lord, 175. Guizot, Francois, 256, 314. H Haase, 482. Haileybury. See Mackintosh. Hale, Nathan, 12. Hallam, Henry, 58. Halle, visits, 110. Hamilton, Alexa
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
y. The only striking fact he mentioned about himself was, that he learnt to talk modern Greek, easily, in eight days. . . . March 10.—I passed, this forenoon, a couple of hours with Count Alberti, looking over the Tasso manuscripts. Cogswell, Gray, Two old friends just arrived in Rome. Sir H. Russell, and Sir W. Dundas were there on my invitation; and two Italians, a Countess somebody, and another. The whole matter is curious, very curious. The collection is large,—above an hundred pied thoroughly ignorant. Capuccini gave no hopes about the cordons. So, no doubt, we decided well not to go to Naples. After a pleasant excursion to Albano and Frascati, in all the radiance of an Italian spring, and accompanied by their friends Gray and Cogswell, and young Ward, also from Boston, they returned to Rome for a single night before setting out for the North. An agreeable incident occurred on that last evening, which is thus described in the Journal:— I was just going out to m<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
June 26.—We left Venice this morning with less reluctance than we otherwise should have done, if the weather had not of late been so warm that we begin to be impatient to get into the mountains, where we have the project of making, in company with Gray and Cogswell, a somewhat long and whimsical, but as we hope agreeable journey of a few weeks. . . . The whimsical journey was, in fact, a voyage en zigzag through different passes of the Alps; out of Italy by the Brenner; in again over the Stend next after this, the Glacier of Grindelwald and the Mer de Glace. . . . . After a week at Munich—where they again met Mr. Wordsworth and Mr. Robinson–they parted not only from these English friends, but from their Boston fellow-travellers, Gray, Cogswell, and Ward, and went on to Heidelberg, where they remained nearly four weeks, as a pause and rest after just three months of uninterrupted travelling and sight-seeing. Of his acquaintance and interests there, Mr. Ticknor writes thus:—
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
y his opinion. No doubt the picture is very striking, and so is Hume's account of Cromwell, and both belong to anything but a man of an easy or tranquil mind. But I doubt whether Cromwell ever suffered so much from remorse, as Hume, in this particular passage, supposes. Indeed, a few pages later he seems to admit it. . . . . When we had rested, we went to dinner at Professor Smyth's. He has a very comfortable bachelor establishment in Peter House, the same, I think, that was occupied by Gray the poet, whose successor he is in the chair of History, a place given to him by Lord Lansdowne when the Whigs were in power, above thirty years ago. He received us in his library, which is well stored with a somewhat miscellaneous collection of books, in history and poetry, and the little party soon collected there to the number of eight or ten, including the Vice-Chancellor Worseley, Master of Downing, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, counted among the agreeables of Cambridge, and Professor Peacock, c
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
t, therefore. He said that the Introduction, which is a sort of autobiography, is completed. This I knew, for he read me large portions of it twenty years ago. The rest is divided into three parts, the first of which is partly written in fragments, which Mr. Wordsworth says would be useless and unintelligible in other hands than his own; the second is the Excursion; and the third is untouched. On my asking him why he does not finish it, he turned to me very decidedly, and said, Why did not Gray finish the long poem he began on a similar subject? Because he found he had undertaken something beyond his powers to accomplish. And that is my case. We controverted his position, of course, but I am not certain the event will not prove that he has acted upon his belief. At any rate, I have no hope it will ever be completed, though after his death the world will no doubt have much more than it now possesses. We remained two or three hours with him in this sort of talk, and recollectio
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
amily still lived somewhat like travellers, visiting various relatives and friends during the two summers, and in the winter and spring, while in Boston, passing a few weeks at a hotel, and five months under the hospitable roof of their friend, F. C. Gray. In September, 1839, they were able to return to their house in Park Street, which had been rented for four years, and at the expiration of that time had required some renovation and change. During the succeeding years, Mr. Ticknor's corres say, and I do not wonder that you spent sundry happy days here last summer, except that there were so many people in it. We came a week ago, and had the Prescotts and Gray, Judge and Mrs. Prescott, Mr. W. H. Prescott and his daughter, and Mr. F. C. Gray. till day before yesterday, when they returned, and left us to enjoy this rich and beautiful nature quite alone. It is really delicious. Don't you think we can tempt you to give up at Washington and come here? We can offer you the beautifu
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
is, Portland. Boston, December 9, 1847. my dear Charles,—. . . . You had, I dare say, a pleasant Thanksgiving, for you have in your own household, and among your own kin, all the materials for it. Ours, too, was pleasant, and ended at the Guilds', with the most thorough game of romps I have come across for many a year. Since that time we have gone on with our usual quietness; seeing a good many people at home, and few anywhere else. Gray's pamphlet Prison Discipline in America, by F. C. Gray. Boston, 1847.—of which you acknowledge the receipt—has done its perfect work, and settled the question as between the two systems of prison discipline. I never knew anything of the sort so well received, or produce so considerable an effect. Mr. Norton ended a note to Gray by saying, One lays down your pamphlet without feeling the least curiosity about what may be said in reply to it, . . . . and Webster said he never expected to learn any more on the subject; it was exhausted and set<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
orld. With these I occupied myself an hour or two, the three charming little girls helping me to bring the books, and put them up again in the most frolicsome and agreeable manner. Of course I was taken to see the old Manor House, the scene of Gray's Long Story, that begins, In Briton's Isle, and Arthur's days. It is well cared for, and is an excellent specimen of the Elizabethan style, as it ought to be, since Hatton lived there. The church, too, and, above all, the churchyard, which gave the world the undying Elegy, and where rest the remains of Gray's mother and aunt, who lived at Stoke Pogis after the death of his father. They are most poetical places, the architecture, the position, and the plantations being just what you would like to have them, and treated with the respect they deserve . . . . When we reached town,—just before seven,—I drove directly to the Athenaeum, where, by previous appointment, I met Twisleton, who has come to town for two nights to attend a meet
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
83, 84; Literary Club, 85; secret societies, 90-93. Gourieff, Count, I. 487. Goyon, Count, II. 344, 347. Graham, Lady, James, I. 407. Grammont, Duchess de, I. 257. Granada, I. 193; visits, 228-232; Archbishop of, 228, 229 and note, 232; Cathedral of, 229. Grant, Mrs., Anne, of Laggan, I. 274, 278 and note, 279, II. 162. Granville, Countess of, II 373, 374, 381. Granville, Earl, II. 141, 362, 365, 373, 374. Grassi, Padre, 1. 193 note. Graves, Dr., I. 420, 421. Gray, Francis Calley, I. 31, 318 and note, 328, 371, II. 79, 85, 100, 184, 191, 207, 229 and note, 233 and note. Gray, Thomas, I. 285. Greenough, founder of Royal Geological Society, II. 176. Greenough, Horatio, II. 48 and note, 76; letter to, 241 and note. Greenough, William W., II. 314, 317, 320, 325, 444, 445 and note; letter to, 351. Greg, William Rathbone, II. 65, 167, 276, 361, 362. Gregoire, Count, Bishop, I. 130, 143. Gregorovius, Ferd., II. 344. Gregory, Mr., II. 164. Grenv