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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Life of George Ticknor. (search)
especially a cause of daily and life-long gratitude. Elisha Ticknor was a man of great purity of character, considerable cndley Murray. During his life of active business, Mr. Elisha Ticknor had much to do with the establishment of the Massachclass to whom free schools are most important. In 1805, Mr. Ticknor, feeling deep interest in these neglected children, madend thrift, and thus lessen the burden of poverty. Mr. Elisha Ticknor's appearance was striking and attractive. Tall and ock was not sold till several years after his death. Mr. Ticknor's mother was born in Sharon, Mass., and belonged to a faas a surgeon in the Revolutionary army. We have heard Mr. Ticknor mention a somewhat romantic incident connected with the when it was no longer necessary, after her marriage with Mr. Ticknor, which took place May 1, 1790. The children by her fiat sea, on a northern voyage, at the age of eighteen. Mr. Ticknor was the only child of the second marriage. William Ti
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
e autobiography. They were all written to his parents, except one to his friend, Mr. Edward T. Channing. To Mr. E. Ticknor. New York, December 31, 1814. I devoted the greater part of this morning to Fulton's steam machinery. The first de me think better of his heart than I had before. At table he talked little, but ate and smoked a great deal. To Mr. E. Ticknor. Georgetown, D. C., January 17, 1815. As we drew near to the metropolis I got out and rode forward with the drivepossible to foresee what will be the next measure, it is easy to believe that it will be violent and desperate. To Mr. E. Ticknor. Port tobacco, Maryland, January 26, 1815. We left Washington the 24th, just at sunrise, and drove five miles to nd you, my dear mother, look down a little on the pet your indulgence has made.— but now I can answer you both. To Mr. E. Ticknor. Richmond, February 1, 1815. You will expect from me some account of Mr. Wickham, and of the Chief Justice of the
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
familiar, and the high pulse of his enjoyment is felt in his letters and journals. To Elisha Ticknor. London, May 26, 1815. At last, my dear father, I address you from this great city. . . n the time of Charles II.; from there to Lloyd's Coffee-House, and finally to Guildhall.Zzz To Mr. And Mrs. Ticknor. London, June 8, 1815. . . . . I cannot tell you how happy your letters haveMrs. Ticknor. London, June 8, 1815. . . . . I cannot tell you how happy your letters have made me. It is all well, and I am sure home must still be to you what it always has been to me, the place of all content and happiness. You, my dear father, are now, I suppose, at Hanover, and I knoy, the writer of the Greek articles in the Quarterly Review. In a note subsequently added, Mr. Ticknor stated that Elmsley was not the writer of the articles ascribed to him. He expressed to me hi envied any men more than Lewis and Clarke, when he read the account of their expedition. Mr. Ticknor left London on the 30th of June with the same delightful party of friends with whom he had cr
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
On arriving at Gottingen, which was to be Mr. Ticknor's home for twenty months, he felt like the al relations grew up between them, and when Mr. Ticknor took leave of the great naturalist, he felt meagre collections he had left at home. Mr. Ticknor once said to me that nothing more marked th life, or the measure of any human powers. Mr. Ticknor's enjoyment of the new and copious sources ns and their changes, all please alike. Mr. Ticknor always was an easy and ready writer, and ths more fortunate and greater rival. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 5, 181menbach's, Heeren's, or Eichhorn's. To Elisha Ticknor, Esq., Boston. Gottingen, November 10, 18ous poems. He was but two years older than Mr. Ticknor, having been born in 1789. He died in 1817has not his reward for his sacrifices. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, November 18, 1815. . . . . It me. Yours affectionately, Geo. T. To E. Ticknor. Gottingen, December 17, 1815. . . . . N[4 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
y all there; but it is impossible to go into the details of this system here. . . . . To Elisha Ticknor. Gottingen, June 5, 1816. . . . .I was telling you of my acquaintance. Saturday eveningve you, in so short a space, of the present condition of metaphysics in Germany. . . . To Elisha Ticknor. Gottingen, June 20, 1816. . . . . .We have always been accustomed to hear and to talk ofnd conjecture many of its coming effects. . . . . Always your affectionate, Geo. T. To Elisha Ticknor. Gottingen, July 6, 1816. . . . . I know not, dear father, that I can say anything morthe people are now decidedly at variance, and time must determine which will prevail. To Mrs. E. Ticknor. Gottingen, July 21, 1816. . . . . In my own situation I know not that any change has tmains to him, that I can see, but a very few years of cold and unsatisfied retirement. To Elisha Ticknor. Gottingen, November 9, 1816. Once more, dear father and mother, I date to you from Gott
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
e was nobody equal to him but Benjamin Constant. To Elisha Ticknor. Paris, May 3, 1817. Well, my dear father and mothn I have seen in Europe,—perhaps the most so. One day Mr. Ticknor was walking in Paris with a friend and townsman, when they met Baron Humboldt. Mr. Ticknor bowed, and was passing on, when Humboldt stopped, and said that there was to be a function at the Institute the next day, and that if Mr. Ticknor would like to be present, he would give him a ticket. The offer was ect him for what I saw of his feelings to-night. To Elisha Ticknor. Paris, June 13, 1817. . . . . You tell me, in whaou are the person who made a search, some time since, of Mr. Ticknor's papers, etc., in the Rue Taranne, No. 10. After refled this circumstance expressly in my proces verbal, which Mr. Ticknor also signed himself, and therefore they know it all, as e, as for denouncing any one else. On the 27th July, Mr. Ticknor says: From the early part of July almost all my French f
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
Chapter 7: Mr. Ticknor leaves Paris. visit to La Grange. Geneva. M. De La Rive. Professor Pictet. Sir Francis d'ivernois. Bonstetten. Fete by a Rit, wearied out, at two o'clock in the morning. On the 16th of September Mr. Ticknor joined Dr. Edward Reynolds, Mr. Edward Brooks of Boston, and Dr. Wagner of Sting in conversation from a certain dignity and force in her remarks. To Elisha Ticknor. Geneva, September 19, 1817. I left Paris, as I told you I should, Septche which exactly corresponded to the description of one in Strabo.— Note by Mr. Ticknor. September 27.—Between Brigg and Domo d'ossola, we have today crossed ther town—as to serve for shelter to the Romans, etc., etc. In this manner Mr. Ticknor occupied himself in each city as he advanced, giving many curious facts. Ferliest times, and of the speculations as to the causes of its unhealthiness, Mr. Ticknor says:— The present situation is that of a boundless waste, over which t
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
Bonaparte family. Florence. Countess of Albany. Mr. Ticknor arrived in Rome on the 2d of November, 1817, and left ite proof of most faithful and scholarly research. To Elisha Ticknor Rome, January 1, 1818. Once more, dearest father amiddle of October. More of this hereafter. Geo. To Elisha Ticknor. January 15, 1818. . . . . Rome continues to be al the last time; but it will not be so with Rome. To Elisha Ticknor. Rome, February 1, 1818. . . . . Cogswell and mysewere very pleasantly passed. On the 28th of February Mr. Ticknor left Naples and returned to Rome. To Elisha Ticknor. Elisha Ticknor. Rome, March 3, 1818. . . . . My visit at Naples, on which I was absent from this city just a month, was every way pleasa America, which he liked well to let me see. . . . . Mr. Ticknor in later years gave the following account of an interest for herself the most notoriously bad character.—Note by Mr. Ticknor, 1860. . . . . The daughter of Madame by her first hu
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
ol for deaf-mutes. bull-fights. To Elisha Ticknor. Madrid, May 23, 1818. My last was froyou shall know more. . . . . Geo. T. To Elisha Ticknor. Madrid, June 3, 1818. On my arrival harly beautiful and original. . . . . To Elisha Ticknor. Madrid, August 1, 1818. I am sure youecret. Two attempts were made to convert Mr. Ticknor to Catholicism. Once at Rome, being at a gterson. His history, as afterwards told to Mr. Ticknor by Mr. George Harrison, was a curious one. st and an ascetic. Patterson often visited Mr. Ticknor, glad to get a breakfast or a lunch, and onhurch. His visits ceased after a time, but Mr. Ticknor was told afterwards that it had been an effim. In Madrid, Cardinal Giustiniani made Mr. Ticknor acquainted with a young Italian ecclesiastich, which had just come out, and he visited Mr. Ticknor often. After this intimacy had passed off,Bonaparte, became an affectionate friend to Mr. Ticknor, and sincerely desired his conversion; and,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
tradition, which I think I have noticed in his Chronicle, that the Cid was a famous toreador, and that he was the first that ever fought bulls on horseback. Mr. Ticknor sketches in many pages the growth, ceremonies, and mode of carrying on the bull-fights,—a long and minute description, which he afterwards arranged as an articllast, one of the royal princesses had driven the pica into the bull's neck,—the nail to which are attached the colors of the province from which the bull came. Mr. Ticknor said that he could scarcely believe that of any woman, but that she was a Portuguese, and might be pretty coarse. Well, said the Ambassador, you are 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 b
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