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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 32 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 22 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28. (search)
panions of Sir Walter Scott, and made an excursion to Abbotsford. He was in Edinburgh nine days, meeting some of its most famous men; dining with Sir William Hamilton and Sir John Robison, Secretary of the Royal Society, enjoying the society of Jeffrey, who was assiduous in attentions, and entertained by Sir James Gibson Craig at Riccarton House. Next he visited his friend Brown at Lanfire House, Kilmarnock, and joined in the rude festivities of a Highland wedding. While lodging at an inn ates; of Follett, Rolfe (Lord Cranworth), Wilde, Crowder, Lushington, and D'Oyly, among lawyers; of Hayward, Adolphus, Clark, Bingham, Wills, Theobald, Starkie, and Professor Bell, among law-writers and reporters; of Hallam, Parkes, Senior, Grote, Jeffrey, Murray, Carlyle, Rogers, Talfourd, Whewell, and Babbage, among men of learning, culture, and science; of Maltby, Milman, and Sydney Smith, among divines; of Robert Ingham, John Kenyon, Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton), Basil Montagu, and Charles
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
ies and territories, as have Lord Jeffrey's. Francis Jeffrey, 1773-1850; one of the founders of the Edinburgrace, beauty, precision, and variety of word as did Jeffrey, when I introduced the name of Jeremy Taylor; to ca another sketch, and yet I cannot help saying that Jeffrey is superlatively eminent as a converser,— light, aian American. Lanfire House, Ayrshire, Sept. 24. Jeffrey against all the world! While in Edinburgh I saw muvor of his conversation is derived from its humor. Jeffrey is not without humor, but this is not a leading ele men of the Edinburgh Review, —Smith, Brougham, and Jeffrey. But there is a fourth,—John A. Murray, the prese was in Parliament from 1832 to 1835; succeeded Francis Jeffrey, in 1834, as Lord-Advocate, and, losing the offs ever, yours affectionately, C. S. P. S. Lord Jeffrey and Sydney Smith both spoke of Macaulay as a talker who said too much,—so much that Jeffrey thought he was not a popular diner out; and Sydney Smith said, when I