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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Life of George Ticknor. (search)
rom Commencement, August, 1805. Meantime, I continued to study with my father at home. In 1803 I was put to learn French with Mr. Francis Sales, with whom I made very good progress, though his pronunciation was bad, as he came from the South of France, and both he and I had to correct it later. I also learnt a little Spanish with him,—but very little; though he knew it tolerably well, having lived some time in Spain with an uncle, who, like himself, was a refugee in the time of the Revolutionthere was a Dr. Brosius, a native of Strasburg, who gave instruction in mathematics. He was willing to do what he could for me in German, but he warned me that his pronunciation was very bad, as was that of all Alsace, which had become a part of France. Nor was it possible to get books. I borrowed a Meidinger's Grammar, French and German, from my friend, Mr. Everett, and sent to New Hampshire, where I knew there was a German Dictionary, and procured it. I also obtained a copy of Goethe's Wer
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
if I do not mean to relinquish my favorite pursuits, and acknowledge that I have trifled away some of the best years of my life, I must spend some time in Italy, France, and Germany, and in Greece, if I can. . . . The truth is, dear Charles, that I have always considered this going to Europe a mere means of preparing myself for gve me there an account of the manner in which he passed the portion of his time in Europe which he could rescue from public business; told me that while he was in France he had formed a plan of going to Italy, Sicily, and Greece, and that he should have executed it, if he had not left Europe in the full conviction that he should ime that he was now seventy-two years old, and that most of his friends and correspondents in Europe had died in the course of the twenty-seven years since he left France, but that he would gladly furnish me with the means of becoming acquainted with some of the remainder, if I would give him a month's notice, and regretted that th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
We cannot measure or comprehend it. . . . . . When Napoleon was rejected from France, every man in Christendom, of honest principles and feelings, felt as if a weigous about my going to the Continent, in consequence of the change of affairs in France. I assure you there is not the least occasion for anxiety. . . . . It is not abarrassment in going now, or after hostilities have commenced, even directly to France, much less to Holland, and to a university which knows no changes of war or peafrom the testimony of very many of our countrymen, who have just returned from France and Germany. But not only Americans, but Englishmen go every day to the Continable variety of subjects,—America, of which she seemed to know considerable; of France, and Greece, with something of her husband's visit there,—and spoke of all with ugliness and deformity of David the painter; told us some of her adventures in France, a year ago; and, in speaking of Bonaparte, repeated some powerful lines from t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
s profitably, and then I shall probably resort to those of Eichhorn on literary history, and to those of some other professors on Greek, Roman, and German literatures. If I find this mode of instruction profitable, and nothing calls me sooner to France, I shall remain here until next April. You now know, my dear father, all that I know myself about Gottingen and my prospect in it. . . . . There is no such thing as a royal road to learning; but in the means, opportunities, and excitements off himself by it. Do not think, said he, that I am ignorant of the disaffection in Gottingen, or that it will escape unpunished. You flatter yourselves that I shall lose my throne, but you are mistaken. As long as my brother sits on the throne of France, so long I shall be your king, and I will use my power to punish your ingratitude. The University shall be remodelled,—it shall be a French University. I will have French professors,—men of virtue and patriotism, etc., etc. After a considera
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
d not all favor them. From local situation and political interest they were more connected with France than with any other nation; and the gay splendor of literature at the Court of Louis XIV. at onf in a condition at last to control its destinies. By the peace of Tilsit, Prussia gave up to France about one half of her population, and became at once the subject of a system of plunder and outr by the French a man of so much consequence, that he was one of the six whom they carried off to France as hostages for this quarter of the country, and he remained there half a year. During this exi full and free consent. This winter I must remain here, of course; the next summer I must be in France, and the next winter in Italy. I willingly give up Greece, but still I find no room for Spain. ther Frenchman, like Villers, and says he will build a bridge that shall conduct the empirics of France to the simplicity of German philosophy. Mad. de Stael complains of Goethe's tragedies for being
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
, and named, at the same time, four persons in France and one in America who were privy to the desig Voss's mind, The troubles now breaking out in France are the beginnings of a European war between tnboldt and M. de Schlegel have been so long in France that they have lost their nationality in all tnality about them, and took that form which in France is called amiability, but which everywhere els I was as curious to see as any two persons in France whom I had not yet met. The Duchess de Broglief diction to anything that has been written in France these thirty years. While we were talking of ireat and indefinite class of what is called in France spectacle, than what in any country should be rnment. I have never done so, least of all in France, where, on the whole, an impartial man would rarker, an American gentleman, who had lived in France for thirty years. Journal. It is a fine akespeare and Milton have more poetry than all France can show from the time of the Troubadours and
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
d M. Sismondi to meet me at breakfast, he having arrived last evening only, from Geneva, and whom I could not otherwise have seen. He is about fifty, a plain man in his manners and in his conversation, not affecting the appearance of a petit maitre, nor the reputation of a wit, like the Paris men of letters. We had a pleasant drive of five hours, and arrived in the afternoon at La Grange, near Rosoy, in the department of the Seine-et-Marne. It is the most venerable castle I have seen in France. The sweet little Duchess de Broglie was already there; more interesting than ever from her affliction, The death of Mad. de Stael. which, from her perfect openness of character, she hardly attempts to conceal. Coming with persons I knew so well, and to an establishment where everything is arranged as if on purpose for the most open hospitality, I soon felt, as it were, at home. It is impossible to know General Lafayette in Paris and the world without feeling respect for his enthusi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
he antiquity and splendor of his family, one of the first, if not the very first nobleman in Europe, and, from his personal talents and virtues and fidelity, one of the chief supporters of the French throne. Immediately on the return of the king he was appointed ambassador here; not only from the great importance of the post arising from the connection then to be formed anew between the two branches of the restored family, but from the great dignity of the appointment, as the chief embassy France sends, since it is from a Bourbon to a Bourbon, and from the great personal influence he has with the king and court. . . . . I dine with him two or three times every week, and see him more or less every day; for if by accident I do not meet him in the evening, I am sure that in the morning he will look into my quarters, telling me that he came to see whether I was sick; and still oftener he comes and sits with me to read or to talk, for he is the only Frenchman whose literary opinions an
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
going to court, of course, naming the day; come and stand by me when the royal family pass, and I will make her boast of it. When the time came, Mr. Ticknor took his place by the Duke; the ladies of course stopped to speak with the Ambassador of France. When the Portuguese princess came, the Duke said to her that he heard they had a fine bull-fight on Monday. O yes, she said; and I did something towards its success, for I drove in the pica . . . . . It is a curious and interesting sight togreat offices of the kingdom. They have repeatedly been married into the royal family of the Bourbons, have acquired successively the title of Count of Buchoven, and Prince of Laval from the German Empire, Duke of Laval, and peer of the realm in France, and Duke of San Fernando-Luis and grandee of the first class in Spain, besides all sorts of knighthoods, crosses, commanderships, etc., etc., and besides having been, more than once, at the head of affairs at home, and having often gained great
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
intercourse could be carried to greater perfection than this is in France. . . . . You come in without ceremony, talk as long as you find per elegant manners, and a power in conversation which has no rival in France since the death of Mad. de Stael. Her natural talents are of a higerican Minister, Mr. Morris. Mons. Pastoret afterwards escaped from France, and was for some time in exile. He has since been Chancellor of FFrance, and has published law-books of great merit. The Countess de Ste. Aulaire's salon was the place of meeting for the Doctrinaires, Decah the tasteful and dainty luxury to which he had been accustomed in France, before he fled from the Revolution, and amidst which he had everywope you will do me the favor not to speak of it while you remain in France. As you are going away so soon, you will not, I trust, feel it mucthan they do themselves: while, at the same time, his books left in France, in Gallicia, at Lisbon, and two or three places in England; his ma
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