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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
ing days, going with him, among other places, to Lord Holland's, where he enjoyed the society very much. . . . . One show that I took some pains to see in London was, to be sure, very different from the others, but still very curious. Mr. Washington Irving and I went together to see the damning of a play called The Italians, The Italians; or, The Fatal Accusation, a tragedy by Mr. Bucke. which had been acted two nights, amidst such an uproar that it was impossible to determine whether the s we had passed so much of the evening with the mob, we thought we would finish the remainder of it with them, and went from the theatre to the Lord Mayor's ball. There were, I suppose, about three or four thousand people there; but, excepting Mr. Irving, with whom I went to see the show, and my bookseller, there was not a face I had ever seen before. The whole was a complete justification of all the satires and caricatures we have ever had upon city finery and vulgarity. At the head of one o
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 19: (search)
de, and Chancellor Kent sent me his Commentaries, or I suppose I should not have ventured into them; but being obliged to do enough to make appropriate acknowledgments, I read the whole, and was much interested and edified. I received, the other day, a package of books and manuscripts from Everett, in Spain. Alexander H. Everett, United States Minister to Spain. Among the rest, the work about Columbus, which is very curious, and ought to be translated bodily, as well as melted down, by Irving, into an interesting and elegant piece of biography . . . . In April, 1828, Mr. Ticknor went with his friend Prescott to Washington, being absent from home about three weeks, during which he very much enjoyed the society of his companion, and that of Mr. Webster, with whom they spent nearly all their time in Washington. He also saw many other friends and interesting persons, who are mentioned in his letters to Mrs. Ticknor. For instance— Last evening we went to Mr. Clay's. He look
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
n. Dr. Channing's little book, therefore, will be received with unhesitating and unmingled consent and applause in Europe, and will add at once to his reputation, which is already much greater than I supposed; not as extensive as that of Washington Irving, but almost as much so, and decidedly higher. My bookseller here told me, to-day, he thought an English edition of his works would sell well on the Continent, they are so frequently asked for in his shop; and Baron Billow, a young Prussiane, where I have read aloud the whole of the Paradise Lost, and, indeed, nearly the whole of Milton's poetry, the whole of the Task, and eleven of Shakespeare's Plays. . . . . And it is owing mainly to this-though I would not undervalue the very picturesque, new, and striking society we have seen so much of, from the Court down—that I think we feel, as Washington Irving said to me in New York about his own visit here, that the Dresden winter has been one of the pleasantest winters of our life
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ncis, 15. Hopkinson, Judge, 15. Hopkinson, Mrs., 16. House of Commons, G. T. called before Committee of, 415; debate in, 416. Houston, General S., 372, 373, 374. Huber, Francois, 156, 157. Hudson River, visits, 386. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, 128-130, 134 and note, 135, 138, 145, 146, 254, 255, 257, 258 note, 263, 498-501. Humboldt, Madame Wilhelm von, 177, 178. Hume, Colonel, 447. Hunt, Jonathan, 7, 381. Hunt, Leigh, 292, 294. I Infantado Duke del, 206. Irving, Washington, 291, 293, 479, 492. Italians, The, by Mr. Bucke, rejected by a London audience, 291. Italinski, 179. Italy, visits, 160-184. J Jackson, General, Andrew, 480. Jackson, Judge, 40, 371. Jakobs, Professor, 111, 112. Jamieson, Robert, 275. Jarvis, Charles, 20. Jefferson, Thomas, President of the United States, 16, 53, 110, 212, 302 note, 303, 345, 346, 377; visits, 34 38, 348, 349; his philosophy, 37; letters from, 300-302; opinion of Bonaparte, 301; plans for University,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
interesting the general Reader. correspondence with Washington Irving, Don Pascual de Gayangos, and Dr. Julius. growth of after his return to America he wrote as follows to Mr. Washington Irving, who had just accepted the post of Minister from thgswell would go as Secretary of Legation:— To Washington Irving, Esq., New York. Boston, March 31, 1842. my dear Mr. Irving,—Cogswell's decision throws me quite out of my track, and leaves me no resource but to turn to you. I trust, howey interest myself again to procure the place for anybody. Irving will do all he can to help Prescott and myself, for his kinow when you have taken up the remainder of the money in Mr. Irving's hands, and I will send more. From Southey's sale I ob sorry to hear that the Calderons bring poor accounts of Mr. Irving's health. I trust he is better. Pray give my affectionle to be introduced here. A delightful letter from Washington Irving has already been published in his Memoirs, which depr
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
t if we are ignorant, as I think we are, about Canada, they are quite as ignorant about us. I think they hardly know more than the people in England do. . . . . We are all well, and send kindest regards. . . . . Yours sincerely, Geo. Ticknor. To Sir Edmund Head. Boston, March 26, 1860. I have been invited by the Historical Society of New York, with Everett and one or two more hereabouts, to listen in their Music Hall to a discourse which Bryant, the poet, will deliver on Washington Irving's birthday, April 3, in honor of his genius and virtues. As I really loved and admired him very much,—having lived a good deal with him in London in 1818-19, just before the Sketch Book came out, when he was in straitened 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
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
sermon to the young and a refreshment to the old, the best monument that one man of letters ever reared to his friendship for another; and you have done your part so well, that, in raising a monument to Prescott, you have constructed an imperishable one for yourself. So you see how many causes I have to thank you. I remain, my dear Mr. Ticknor, with sincere regard, Yours, Geo. Bancroft. What a fortunate thing it is for the country that its two favorite authors, Prescott and Washington Irving, had each a nature so pure and generous. Prescott's example as a man will have an influence, the most chastening and the most benign, on our young men of coming generations. You have gained a triumph in letters; but I think you are still more to be congratulated in having been able to set before our people every feature and form of his mind, as a model of integrity and a persevering, manly, successful war against difficulties which would have overwhelmed the resolution of many of the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
alier, II. 263. Humboldt, Baron Alexander von, I. 128, 129, 130, 134 and note, 135, 138, 145, 146, 254, 225. 257, 258 note, 263, . 498. 499, 500, 501 II 3, 4, 20 note, 260, 315, 330 and note, 332, 333, 339, 340, 341; letter from, 411; letter to, 414. Humboldt, Mad. von (Wilhelm), 1.177, 178, II 59. Humboldt, Wilhelm von, II. 41L Hume, Colonel, I. 447. Hume, Joseph, II. 156, 157. Hunt, Jonathan, I. 7, 381. Hunt, Leigh, I. 292, 294. I Infantado, Duque del, I. 206. Irving, Washington, I. 291, 293, 479, 492, II. 247, 248, 256 note, 454; letter to, 245. Ischl, II. 31. Italians, The, by Mr. Bucke, rejected by a London audience, I. 291. Italinski, 1.179. Italy, visits, I. 160-184, II. 37-99, 335-353. J Jablonowski, Princess, II. 88 and note. Jackson, General, Andrew, I. 480. p Jackson, Judge, I. 40, 371. Jakobs, Professor, I. Ill, 112. Jameson, Mrs. II. 201, 202. Jamieson, Robert, I. 275. Janvier, M., II. 106, 120. Jarcke, Dr., II. 1, 3,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, The New world and the New book (search)
temperament and the most cosmopolitan in training. Washington Irving was, as one may say, born a citizen of the world, forr a time at least, that we were a nation. Yet it was Washington Irving who wrote to John Lothrop Motley, in 1857, two years s deliberate utterance of the placid and world-experienced Irving. It was the fashion of earlier critics to pity him for harom all schooling, must not even have a primer of her own. Irving certainly did not assume the (Goldwin Smith attitude, thatle America is to get no farther than the prisoners' dock. Irving would have made as short work with such a cosmopolitan trie high should leave the court-room. In truth, the tone of Irving's remark carries us back, by its audacious self-reliance, Hist. of Rome, tr. by Schmitz, v. 35. At any rate, Irving must have meant something by the remark. What could he hao Chattanooga. And Motley the pupil was not unworthy of Irving from whom the suggestion came. His Dutch Republic was wri
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, II (search)
ase they are apt to pass for Englishmen by no wish of their own, and to be suspected of a little double dealing when they hasten to reveal their birthplace. It very often turns out that the demand for a distinctive Americanism really seeks only the external peculiarities that made Joaquin Miller and Buffalo Bill popular; an Americanism that can at any moment be annihilated by a pair of scissors. It is something, no doubt, to be allowed even such an amount of nationality as this; and Washington Irving attributed the English curiosity about him to the fact that he held a quill in his fingers instead of sticking it in his hair, as was expected. But it would seem that Mr. Arnold, on the other hand, disapproved the attempt to set up any claim whatever to a distinctive American temperament; and he has twice held up one of our own authors for reprobation as having asserted that the American is, on the whole, of lighter build and has a drop more of nervous fluid than the Englishman. Th