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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
showed Mrs. Siddons's masculine powers in the stronger light of comparison and contrast. Her daughter, who was with her, is the handsomest lady I have seen in England. She is about twenty. After she was gone, the conversation naturally turned on the stage. Lord Byron asked me what actors I had heard, and, when I told him, imitated to me the manner of Munden, Braham, Cooke, and Kemble, with exactness, as far as I had heard them. Kemble has been ill ever since I arrived, and is now in Scotland, and of course I could not judge of the imitation of him. Afterwards I had a long and singular conversation with Lord Byron, in which, with that simplicity which I have uniformly found to mark his character, he told me a great deal of the history of his early feelings and habits; of the impressions of extreme discontent under which he wrote Childe Harold, which he began at Joannina and finished at Smyrna; and of the extravagant intention he had formed of settling in Greece, which, but f
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
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. If I go there as soon as the spring will make it proper, in 1818, and establish myself at the University of Salamanca, and stay there six months, which is the shortest time in which I could possibly get a suitable knowledge of Spanish literature, my whole time will be absorbed, and England and Scotland will be sacrificed. This last I ought not to do; and yet, the thought of staying six months longer from home is absolutely intolerable to me. If it comes to my mind when I sit down to dinner, my appetite is gone; or when I am going to bed, I get no sleep. Yet, if I take this place, I must do it, and I do not question I could carry it properly through; for, after the last six months here, I do not fear anything in this way; or at least ought not to; but are you willing? Without your conse
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
. Among the persons who came there, besides Lord Belhaven and Lord Elcho,—two of the most respectable young noblemen in Scotland,—were Cranston, the first lawyer there; Clerk, Thomson, and Murray, three more of their distinguished advocates; Sir Tho a young lady staying there, too, who drew a great deal of company to the house, Miss McLane, the most beautiful lady in Scotland, and one, indeed, whose beauty has wrought more wonders than almost anybody's since the time of Helen; for she has actuas to conceal, it was mingled with no conceit. It was like an historical fact to her. . . . . She had half the titles in Scotland at her feet. . . . . I went quite as often to Mrs. Grant's, where an American, I imagine, finds himself at home more to Liverpool. . . . . I am very busy, not with study,—for I have not pretended to study a word regularly since I left Scotland,—but in making all my last preparations for quitting Europe. Nobody can know how many last things are to be done at th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 15: (search)
at political quarrels become private quarrels. It does not make Paris gay. All else continues the same, the salons as you saw them, much vanity, little feeling. Victor, Auguste, Miss Randall, all of them think of you. You won all our hearts. I do not know whether you have vanity enough to be pleased with the general success that you had here. Indeed, you have more pride than vanity, as we told you. Do not forget my American books. Tell me something about the religious condition of Scotland, and England. You know that is a subject which interests me, but I promise not to mingle mystery with it. Tell me, too, whether people talk to you of my mother's work.Je vous assure que je regrette beaucoup vos petites visites, à cinq heures. Je suis fachee d'avoir concu tant d'affection pour un sauvage de l'orinoque, qui ne nous rejoindra peut-être jamais. Qui sait si les revolutions ne nous ameneront pas dans votre tranquille et beau pays. Je ne vous parlerai pas de notre politique, q
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
but leaving the choice of the artist to him. In reply to this request, Sir Walter, with a tact and amiability very characteristic of him, selected the young American painter, then making himself known in England, and invited him to Abbotsford. Mr. Leslie has recorded the experiences of his delightful visit to the Wizard of the North, in his Autobiographical Recollections. Autobiographical Recollections of C. R. Leslie. Edited by Tom Taylor, 1860. He says, In the autumn of 1824 I visited Scotland for the purpose of painting a portrait of Sir Walter Scott, for Mr. Ticknor of Boston; and,—quoting one of his own letters written at the time,—Imagine how delightful these sittings are to me. Again, There was more benevolence expressed in Scott's face than is given in any portrait of him; and I am sure there was much in his heart. This benevolence Leslie has made very obvious in his painting, while the intellect and the humor belonging there are not lost from sight. Sir Walter wished hi
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 21: (search)
nley,—the late Earl of Derby,—Hon. Stuart Wortley, and Evelyn Denison,—afterwards Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Ossington,—when they all were often at Mr. Ticknor's house. another of the Ministry, who was in America, and who is now Master of the Mint and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, as well as Member of Parliament; Lord and Lady Cowper, who is sister of Lord Melbourne; and Lord Minto, lately Minister at Berlin. In the evening my old friend Murray, now Lord Advocate of Scotland, came in, and Lady Minto, with one of the Austrian Legation, and several other persons. The conversation was extremely vivacious and agreeable. Lord Grey is uncommonly well preserved for his age, being now seventy-one years old, and talked well on all subjects that came up, including Horace; Fanny Kemble's book, which he cut to pieces without ceremony; the great question of the ballot and its application to English elections, etc. Lord Melbourne, now fifty-six years old, was somewhat