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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
hen living in St. James's Square. and certainly, for an elegant literary society, I have seen nothing better in Europe. Lord Holland himself is a good scholar, and a pleasant man in conversation; Sir James Mackintosh was staying in his house, Sydney Smith and Brougham came there very often, and Heber and Frere, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Auckland, Lord John Russell, etc., and I do not well know how dinners and evenings could be more pleasant. There was no alloy but Lady Holland, whod Holland's. It was necessary to sit down alone with him in a corner, or on a sofa, and then his conversation was very various and powerful, and showed that he had thought deeply, and made up his mind decisively, upon a great many subjects. Sydney Smith, who then happened to be in London, was in one respect the soul of the society. I never saw a man so formed to float down the stream of conversation, and, without seeming to have any direct influence upon it, to give it his own hue and charm.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
ceal his delight during the whole performance, and when it was over, said to me, That's fine, sir; I think that is very fine; and then looked up at me with one of his most comical Scotch expressions of face, half-way between cunning and humor, and added, All I wish is, that Jedediah Cleishbotham could be here to enjoy it! I met him in court one morning, when he was not occupied, and he proposed to take a walk with me. He carried me round and showed me the houses of Ferguson, Blair, Hume, Smith, Robertson, Black, and several others, telling, at the same time, amusing anecdotes of these men, and bringing out a story for almost every lane and close we passed; explained and defended more at large the opinion he has advanced in Guy Mannering, that the days of these men were the golden days of Edinburgh, and that we live in the decline of society there. I am not certain we do not; but I was never less disposed to acknowledge it than at that moment. Among other anecdotes, Mr. Scott t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
thing to say, he was sure to have an opportunity. Miss Edgeworth wrote, in 1835, After a visit made by Mr. and Mrs. Ticknor at Edgeworthtown. to a friend of Mr. Ticknor, thus:— I have been acquainted, and I may say intimately, with some of the most distinguished literary persons in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland, and have seen and heard all those distinguished for conversational talents; Talleyrand, Dumont, Mackintosh, Romilly, Dugald Stewart, Erskine, Sir Walter Scott, Sydney Smith, and Mr. Sharpe, the fashionable dinner-lions of London. I have passed days in the country-houses and in the domestic intimacy of some of them, and after all, I can, with strict truth, assure you, that Mr. Ticknor's conversation appeared to me fully on an equality with the most admired, in happy, apposite readiness of recollection and application of knowledge, in stores of anecdote, and in ease in producing them, and in depth of reflection not inferior to those whom we have been accustom
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
three miles. July 17.—In returning a few calls this morning I went to see Sydney Smith, and found him a good deal stouter than he was when I knew him before, and wver seen. . . . . July 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 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 inr west. July 22.—We had an extremely agreeable breakfast this morning. Mr. Sydney Smith, whom I had asked a few days ago, and who did not come, now volunteered, added my friend Kenyon, and Henry Taylor. Author of Philip Van Artevelde. Mr. Smith was in great spirits, and amused us excessively by his peculiar humor. I do ed, so fresh. Taylor said little, but Kenyon produced quite an impression on Mr. Smith, who was surprised as well as pleased, for they knew each other very little b<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
iss Fletcher afterwards married Sir John Richardson, the Arctic explorer. formerly of Edinburgh, and one or two other quite agreeable people, and where we stopped long enough to lunch with them. . . . . The other place was that of the venerable Mrs. Smith,—the mother of the extraordinary Elizabeth Smith,— where, besides the fine views, we saw the cottage, the site of the tent which has given the name of Tent Hall to the place,. . . . and the other localities mentioned in the beautiful Fragments,very lively person, abounding in knowledge, and in very exact knowledge. He quite embarrassed me once or twice by his minute familiarity with American geography, but he is a very simple, direct, and agreeable person. His wife — a daughter of Sydney Smith—was not in town, for which I was sorry. But I shall see them both, I trust, when we return to England, for Dr. Holland is among the most interesting men I have met. He is now becoming one of the most famous and fashionable of the London phys
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
Conversation, 55, 56. Shaw, William S., founder of the Boston Athenaeum, 8, 12. Shiel, 415. Siddons, Mrs., 55, 56, 66. Sierra Morena, 223. Silliman, Professor B., 14. Simond, M., 153, 179. Simplon, crosses, 160. Sismondi, Mrs., 290. Sismondi, Simonde de, 151, 290, 291, 295, 297, 314. Skene, James, 283. Slavery in the United States, 479. Smidt, Senator, 122, 123. Smith, Benjamin, 175. Smith, Elizabeth, 433. Smith, Professor, Nathan, 14. Smith, Sir, James, 57. Smith, Rev., Sydney, 265, 413, 414, 417, 418, 446. Smyth, Edward, 438. Smyth, Professor W., 271, 272, 415 and note, 438, 439. Sneyd, Miss, Mary, 426, 428. Solmar, Miss, 495. Somerville, Dr., 448. Somerville, Mrs., 411, 412, 448, 479. Sommariva, Marchese, 175. Sonntag, M., 460. Southey, Edith and Isabella, 285. Southey, Mrs. R., 286 and note, 434. Southey, Robert, 50, 135, 136, 285-287, 434. Souza, Mad. de, 248. Souza, M de, 252, 267. Spain, government of, 191; Inquisition, 193, vi