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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
the lecture. In telling this, Mr. Ticknor would add, as another instance of students' whims, that, when Germany was impoverished by the wars with Napoleon, if a professor at Jena appeared in his lecture-room with a new waistcoat, the students applauded him; and the old professor at Gottingen, who spoke of this, on being asked by Mr. Ticknor what occurred if a new coat made its appearance, exclaimed, Gott bewahre! such a thing never happened! Thomson, an elegant gentleman and scholar; and Morehead, at whose house I twice saw Dr. Alison, a dignified, mild, and gentlemanly man. Dugald Stewart was in Devonshire for his health, both mental and bodily; and, after him, I have but one person to mention, and him I must mention separately. I mean Walter Scott. He is, indeed, the lord of the ascendant now in Edinburgh, and well deserves to be, for I look upon him to be quite as remarkable in intercourse and conversation, as he is in any of his writings, even in his novels. He is now about
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
ly 19, Sunday.—. . . .We went to St. Paul's and heard Sydney Smith, who had kindly given us his pew . . . . . The sermon was an admirable moral essay, to prove that righteousness has the promise of the life that now is. It was written with great condensation of thought and purity of style, and sometimes with brilliancy of phrase and expression, and it was delivered with great power and emphasis. . . . . It was by far the best sermon I ever heard in Great Britain, though I have heard Alison, Morehead, etc., besides a quantity of bishops and archbishops, and both the manner and matter would have been striking anywhere. After the service was over and we were coming away, Mr. Smith came, in some unaccountable manner, out of one of the iron gates that lead into the body of the church, and went round with us, placed us under the vast dome, and showed us the effect from the end of the immense nave. It was very solemn, notwithstanding which he could not refrain from his accustomed humor and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
92. Moller, 124. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, 271. Monroe, J., President of the United States, 349. Mont Blanc, 154, 156. Montgomery, James, 440, 441. Montgomery, Mrs., 386. Monticello, 30; visits, 34-38. Montijo. See Teba. Montmorency, Duc Mathieu de, 304 and note. Montmorency-Laval. See Laval. Moore's Charity School, Elisha Ticknor head of, 1; connected with Dartmouth College, 2. Moore, Thomas, 420, 422, 425. Moratin, L. F., 252. Moreau, General, 488. Morehead, Rev Dr., 280, 414. Morgan, Lady, 425. Morley, First Earl and Countess of, 407. Mornington, Countess of, 295, 296. Morris, Gouverneur, 256. Morrow, Governor, 372. Mos, Marquesa de, 207. Muhlenberg, Dr , 111. Mulgrave, Earl of, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 435, 437, 438. Muller, Johann, 115. Munchhausen, Baron, 501. Munster, Count, 77, 78. Murchison, Sir, Roderick, 419, 421. Murray, J. A., 277, 408. Murray, John, 58, 60, 62, 68, 294. Musgrave, Mr., 246, 247, 248. N Naha