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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 18: (search)
tter yourself. If you will, you will find as glad a welcome as anybody can have, from as good people as are to be found anywhere. To-day, at dinner, I am to meet Grote. I forget whether you knew him. I mean to find out what he thinks about Philip, for though I do not doubt what his opinion on the whole will be, I am curious to k We all dined together, with Mrs. Stanley, a very agreeable, sensible old lady, mother of the Stanley who wrote Arnold's Life . . . . We had Mad. Mohl, Senior, and Grote, the historian, so that there were abundant materials for good talk, and we had it; Grote doing his part rather solemnly, but very well. In the evening TocquevillGrote doing his part rather solemnly, but very well. In the evening Tocqueville came in, passing through London towards home, and so I took leave of him . . . . for the third time, and always sorry to do it. . . . . July 15.—I worked a good while at Stirling's this morning; but as he gives me leave, very liberally, to bring home with me such books as I want to examine, I did not stop so long as I otherwis
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
evoted himself. Neither Gillies, nor Clavier, nor Mitford, nor Ottfried Muller could finally settle the History of Greece, though the materials for it had been ripening a thousand years in the minds of statesmen and scholars; and I dare say that Grote has not done it, though he has stood on the shoulders of all of them. The same thing may happen about the times of Ferdinand and Isabella, and about the Conquest of Mexico. I see no signs of it at present, and I do not really think it will ever happen. But if it should, those books of Prescott's will no more be forgotten, or neglected, than Herodotus, or Thucydides, or Plutarch, or Mitford, or Grote. Nobody can hereafter touch the subjects to which they are devoted without referring to them, and doing it with respect and admiration. But the man himself is in many important senses separate from all this. I knew him well, and I claim my portrait of him to be truthful. It may be ever so imperfectly or coarsely finished, but the g
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
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. Grenville, Mr., Thomas, II. 177. Grey, Earl, I. 295, 408. Grey, Sir, George, I. 411. Griffiths, Professor, I. 419. Grillparzer, Franz, II. 8. Griscom, Professor, I. 298. Grisi, Giulia, I. 407, 413, 436. Grote, George, I. 415. II. 367, 369. Guadiana River, I. 222 and note, 242. Guaiaqui, Count, I. 217, 218. Guild, Mr. and Mrs. B., II. 229. Guild, Samuel Eliot, II. 226. Guilford, Lord, I. 175. Guillemard, II. 182. Guizot, Francois, I. 256, 314, II. 104, 109, 119, 120, 126, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139 and note, 140, 143, 192, 293, 355. H Haase, I. 482. Hale, Nathan, I. 12. Hall, Capt., Basil, II. 8 and note, 13. Hallam, Henry, I. 58, II. 144, 145, 146, 148, 150,