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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
in. Don Angel afterwards became Duke de Rivas. He was always affectionately remembered by Mr. Ticknor and some interchange of books and letters occurred between them in later years. In the Preface to the first edition of the History of Spanish Literature, this Duke de Rivas is spoken of as one who, like the old nobles of the proudest days of the monarchy, has distinguished himself alike in arms, in letters, and in the civil government and foreign diplomacy of his country. He has a fine persan military, to attract my notice; almost nothing in painting, for the few collections there were are scattered, and nothing in letters, except the fine Spanish library of the Hanseatic Consul, Bohl von Faber. In a note to the History of Spanish Literature, Mr. Ticknor says: Few foreigners have done so much for Spanish literature as Bohl von Faber, and mentions his daughter as one of the most popular of the living writers of Spain, her novelas appearing under the pseudonyme of Fernan Caballer
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 16: (search)
o 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 kject. That of the Spanish lectures was printed in 1823, and the following extract is taken from the preface to it, adopting one or two verbal changes made by Mr. Ticknor in an interleaved copy. The Lectures on the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature, for which the present syllabus has been prepared, are about thirty-four in number, each an hour in length. In print they would amount to two octavo volumes. They are prepared for private classes, in Harvard College, and delivered, three