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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Life of George Ticknor. (search)
held in much respect; but his wife (of the Morris family in New York) was so uncommon for talent, knowledge, and brilliant conversation, that he was rather overshadowed at home. She educated her large family herself, entirely fitting her sons for college. She was a lady of warm feelings, strong prejudices, and great energy, and much attached to Philadelphia. Her oldest son, Mr. William Meredith, is a leading lawyer in Philadelphia, and at one time was Secretary of the Treasury, under General Taylor. I dined with a large party at Mr. Daniel Parish's, and, for the first time in my life, saw a full service of silver plate, for twenty persons, with all the accompaniments of elegance and luxury to correspond, and a well-trained body of servants in full livery. But—what was of more interest to me—John Randolph was one of the guests. The instant I entered the room my eye fell on his lean and sallow physiognomy. He was sitting; and his head, with long hair, straight like an Indian'
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
cholar. He wrote Psyche, Cecilia, The Enchanted Rose, (which last has been translated into English,) and many miscellaneous poems. He was but two years older than Mr. Ticknor, having been born in 1789. He died in 1817. After his death, his works were collected and published by his friend Bouterweck, with a short sketch of his life. A new edition appeared in Leipsic in 1855, in four volumes, with a more full biography. An account of his life and works may be found in the third volume of Taylor's Historic Survey of German Poetry. is one of the private lecturers here, and is considered very skilful in teaching; how he is, comparatively with others here, I cannot tell from my own experience, but I know that he is such a scholar as we have no idea of in America. To be sure, he looks as if he had fasted six months on Greek prosody and the Pindaric metres, but I am by no means certain that he has not his reward for his sacrifices. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, November 18, 1815. . .
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
; but it will not be so with Rome. To Elisha Ticknor. Rome, February 1, 1818. . . . . Cogswell and myself have been presented to the Pope this morning. He is the only sovereign in Europe I have ever felt any curiosity to see, and I desired to see him very much, on account of the firmness and dignity with which he always behaved in the most difficult and distressing circumstances, when kings and governments, of force incomparably greater, shrunk and yielded. We were presented by Abbe Taylor, an Irish Catholic, who is appointed by the Pope to present the English; but as we were Americans we had a kind of national privilege to have a private audience at a time when it is not commonly given, and no one went with us except Prof. Bell of Edinburgh, the famous anatomist. There was very little ceremony or parade about it, and in all respects it pleased me extremely. On entering, we knelt and kissed his hand. He is, you know, very old, but he received us standing, and was dress
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
her every day. She is, indeed, an extraordinary person. She converses with fluency, and with an energy and confidence that would seem masculine, if she did not yield so gently and gracefully, and did not seem to seek always to become a listener; and she has an elegance and finish in the construction of her sentences which is uncommon even in practised speakers, and which I have hardly found in a lady before; and yet it is apparent it is done without effort. . . . . One of her daughters, Mrs. Taylor, is one of the sweetest, most beautiful, and most interesting creatures I ever beheld. Another, Miss Fletcher, will, I think, be as remarkable as her mother. This was, therefore, a delightful house to visit, and during the latter part of the time I was in Edinburgh I went there often. Playfair is a most interesting man of seventy. I would rather be like him, in general temper, manners, and disposition, than like anybody of that age I know. To say nothing of the amount of his cultur
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
468, 491. Stroganoff, Countess, 462, 486, 487. Stuart, Lady, Dudley, 446 and note. See Bonaparte, Christine. Stuart, Lord, Dudley, 446 and note. Subaltern, by Gleig, 380. Sullivan, Richard, 12. Sullivan, William, G. T. studies law with, 9, 11, 12, 20, 40, 381. Switzerland, visits, 152-160. T Tagus River, 243. Talleyrand, Prince, 13, 123, 254, 258-263. Talma, 126, 127. Tarentum, Archbishop of, 174. Tatistcheff, M. de, 210, 212. Tatistcheff, Mad. de, 211. Taylor, Abbe, 173. Taylor, Henry, 418. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John, 425 and note, 432 note. Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 350, 381. Tchitchagof, Admiral, 179 Teba, Count de, 233, 235. Teba, Countess de, 233, 234 and note, 309. Testchen, visits, 504-509. Thacher, Rev. S C., 11 Thayer, Sylvanus, Colonel U. S. A., 7, 8 and note, 316 note, 372-375, 386. Theatre, French, 149, 150. Theatre, Spanish, 201. Thierry, A, 314 Thiersch, Professor, 114, 115. Thompson, Mr. and Lady Mary, 440
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
he condition of France, politically considered, he spoke wisely, and was curious to hear what I could tell him, adding that he had known, from 1814, the relations of the two governments, and that, excepting when the Duke de Broglie was Premier, they had never felt, in England, that they could depend implicitly on the representations of the French government; an honorable testimony from one upright minister to another, which was creditable to both. March 26.—We had visits this morning from Taylor,—Philip Van Artevelde,—Southey,—who is just come to town for a short visit,—Dr. Holland, and the admirable old Professor Smyth, which were all as pleasant as morning visits well could be. We dined again at Kenyon's, who wanted us to meet a Dr. Raymond, one of the high dignitaries of the Church, attached to the Durham Cathedral; a person whom I found a little precise in his manners, but more of a scholar in modern elegant literature than Englishmen of his class commonly are, and a very we
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
id when I saw them last . . . . . Moreover, they begin to be afraid, as Macbeth did, that they have 'filed their minds, after all, for somebody's else benefit and not for their own, or that of their party. They begin to be afraid, in short, that Taylor may not be chosen. . . . . . I am, on the contrary, of the mind of the elder brother in Comus:— I incline to hope, rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. I shall vote for Taylor, and if you do as well for him in Maine as VermonTaylor, and if you do as well for him in Maine as Vermont has done, you will yet give him your personal vote as an elector . . . . I write to you about politics because there is nothing else hereabouts to send you, except a little orthodoxy from the village church, or a little of the polufloi/sboio qala/sshs from the beach before us. We have had Mrs. Norton and some of her children staying with us, and expect them again. Gray, too, has been here, the Everetts, Prescotts, and so on. We have not been alone since the first few days after we came do
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
membered his appearance so well, he said he should have recognized him; a son of that Marquis de Sta. Cruz who had so often been his host in Madrid was a member of the Spanish Legation; and, finally, the White House, as presided over by good General Taylor and his attractive daughter, Mrs. Bliss, was, socially, more agreeable than usual. The constant dinner-parties at which this circle met were uncommonly bright with clever conversation, and the mornings passed with Mr. Webster, or in the Hoon . . . . Nor has there been any ground for alarm. The popular will, which gives the main impulse to all governmental action in free institutions like ours, will be as efficient in carrying on the state under Mr. Fillmore as it was under General Taylor. The people know this, and therefore feel little affected by the change. And Mr. Fillmore, on his part, knows that power will be given to him by this popular will only so far as he consults the real interests of the whole country, or what t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
II. 152. Switzerland, visits, I. 152-160, II. 34-37. T Tagus River, I. 243. Tait, Bishop of London, II. 371, 384. Talfourd, Sir T. N., II. 181. Talleyrand, Prince, L 13, 123, 254, 258-263, II. 35, 113, 114. Talma, I. 126, 127. Tarentum, Archbishop of, I. 174. Tascher de la Pagerie, II. 131. Tasso Mss., forgery of, by Alberti, II. 52, 53, 79 and note. Tastu, Mad. Amable, II. 124, 128, 129. Tatistcheff, Madame de, I. 211. Tatistcheff, M. de, I. 210, 212. Taylor, Abbe, I. 173. Taylor, General, Zachary, President of the United States, II. 263; death of, 266. Taylor, Henry (Sir II.), I. 418, 11. 145, 180, 368. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John, I. 425 and note, 432 note, II. 178. Tazewell, Littleton Waller, I. 350, 381. Tchitchagof, Admiral, I. 179. Teba, Count de, I. 233, 235. Teba, Countess de, 1.233, 234 and note, 309. Temmel, A., II. 80. Ternaux-Compans, Henri, II. 118, 127, 133, 355. Ternaux-Compans, Mad., II. 133. Terregles, II. 16