hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
George Ticknor 393 1 Browse Search
Elisha Ticknor 314 20 Browse Search
Department de Ville de Paris (France) 176 0 Browse Search
Madrid (Spain) 158 0 Browse Search
Gottingen (Lower Saxony, Germany) 150 0 Browse Search
Daniel Webster 121 1 Browse Search
France (France) 100 0 Browse Search
United States (United States) 84 0 Browse Search
Wolfgang A. Von Goethe 72 0 Browse Search
Friedrich Tieck 72 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard). Search the whole document.

Found 454 total hits in 163 results.

... 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
De M. De Chateaubriand (search for this): chapter 13
owledge to give effect to her conversation, that impart to it the peculiar charm which I have seen operate like a spell, on characters as different as those of Chateaubriand, Humboldt, and Talleyrand. I liked her very much, and went to her hotel often, in fact sometimes every day. On Sundays I dined there. Chateaubriand, HumboldtChateaubriand, Humboldt, and Alexis de Noailles were more than once of the party; and the conversation was amusing, and once extremely interesting, from the agony of political feeling, just at the moment when the king deserted them, and gave himself up to Mons. Decazes. On Tuesday night she received at home, and all the world came,. . . . and I think, ehtful party for the Duchess of Devonshire, of only five or six persons, —my old friend the Viscount de Senonnes, Humboldt, Forbin, and two or three ladies; and Chateaubriand read a little romance on the Zegri and Abencerrages of Granada, full of descriptions glowing with poetry, like those of the environs of Naples in The Martyrs..
M. De Talleyrand (search for this): chapter 13
om Lisbon to Falmouth. immediate departure for Paris. society. Talleyrand. return to London. Lord Holland. Sir J. MacKINTOSHintosh. Joh characters as different as those of Chateaubriand, Humboldt, and Talleyrand. I liked her very much, and went to her hotel often, in fact som passage in which Mr. Ticknor had already given his impression of Talleyrand is this: His recollection of all he had seen and of all the perso at that period. On both the occasions referred to, I met Mons. de Talleyrand at the hotel of the Duchess de Duras, to whom I was presenteantic in 1815, and who had often told me of her acquaintance with Talleyrand, and that he talked English with her who knew no French at all, wknown that Washington had told Hamilton that he could not receive Talleyrand at his levees, and Pichon had told me, in 1817, that he knew TallTalleyrand had never forgiven it. Among the Writings of Washington, published in 1838, by Jared Sparks, appears (Vol. X. p. 411) a letter to A
Palmella (search for this): chapter 13
ess of Lansdowne, passed a night with my excellent friend Mr. Vaughan, etc. . . . . I found here, too, Count Funchal,. . . . and was very glad to know more of Count Palmella, whom I had known a little at the Marquis of Marialva's, and who is certainly an accomplished gentleman and scholar, as well as a statesman. See ante, pp. 180 and 248. Palmella had been Portuguese plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna, and afterwards held other high offices. I have met few men in Europe who have so satisfied my expectations as this extraordinary young man, who, at the age of about thirty, has thus risen to the height of power, in one of the most despotic governe been the laziest man that ever lived. . . . . There were of course more who came there, the Ordes, Bennett, Lord William Russell, etc., etc., besides Counts Palmella and Souza; but those I have described, and who were there often, constituted the proper society at Lord Holland's, and gave it that tone of culture, wit, and goo
Elisha Ticknor (search for this): chapter 13
Hatfield. Woburn. Cambridge. To Mr. Elisha Ticknor. Lisbon, November 4, 1818. . . . . Y it does, I shall set off at once. To Mr. Elisha Ticknor. London, December 2, 1818. I wrote te all haste to Edinburgh. . . . . To Mr. Elisha Ticknor. Paris, December 22, 1818. Yours of This paragraph was written out later by Mr. Ticknor, and added to the Journal. . . . . . Duringin, De Pradt, The Abbe de Pradt, who, as Mr. Ticknor elsewhere says, of all others in French socrom the Duc de Broglie and from Humboldt to Mr. Ticknor, which have a pleasant flavor and hints of lowing anecdotes were written down later by Mr. Ticknor, and placed by him in the Journal according letter of Washington to Hamilton came into Mr. Ticknor's possession through Mr. Sparks. But this n was polite and even kind in after years to Mr. Ticknor, who used to attribute it to a little passanvicts, sent over from the mother country. Mr. Ticknor replied that he was not aware of it, but sa[1 more...]
Lafayette (search for this): chapter 13
Paris, Mad. de Broglie made a little dinner-party for me, to which she asked Humboldt, Forbin, De Pradt, The Abbe de Pradt, who, as Mr. Ticknor elsewhere says, of all others in French society, is said to have the most esprit in conversation. Lafayette, and two or three other persons, whom I was very glad to see before leaving Paris. It happened too to be Monday night, and therefore I passed the remainder of the evening in her salon, upon which my latest recollections of Paris rest, for I leAs you are going away so soon, you will not, I trust, feel it much of a sacrifice. Of course I gave her the promise and kept it, although I should much have liked to tell the whole conversation at the De Broglies', where I dined with Humboldt, Lafayette, and De Pradt the same evening, and who would have enjoyed it prodigiously. But the first house at which I dined in England was Lord Holland's, where I met Tierney, Mackintosh, and some other of the leading Whigs, to whom I told it amidst grea
L. F. Moratin (search for this): chapter 13
18. Yours of the 16th—29th October, my dear father, arrived since I last wrote you, and, what is better, one from Savage of November 9, both of which speak of great improvement in my mother's health. They have, therefore, removed a great load from my fears, and I feel now as if I had once more the free exercise of my faculties. I have received the necessary permission at the king's library, and am in full operation among its great treasures. I have, besides, made the acquaintance of Moratin, an exiled Spaniard, who is thoroughly familiar with Spanish literary history, and who gives me three or four hours together whenever I ask it, so that I have all possible direction and assistance in this. In Portuguese I have M. de Souza, who is the learned editor and generous publisher of that magnificent edition of Camoens, of which he sent a copy to Harvard College library. With these two, and the means they have given me, I have been so occupied for several days, that I have not been
Kunth (search for this): chapter 13
rites thus:— Je vais reiterer une demande bien indiscrete, monsieur. Jaetais venu ce matin vous offrir mes amities, et vous prier, de vouloir bien vous charger de quelques feuilles imprimees, pour la maison de Sir Joseph Banks. Le celebre botaniste M. Brown, qui a éte a la Nouvelle Hollande, et qui est le Bibliothecaire de Mr. Banks, me demande avec instance, le 4me volume de mes Nova Genera Plantarum, qui renferme les Composees que nous avons decouvertes, M. Bonpland et moi, et que Mr. Kunth a decrites. Je vous supplie en grace de me renvoyer le pacquet, si vous le trouvez trop volumineux. Mille tendres amities. Ce Lundi. A. Humboldt. J'espere vous voir ce soir, chez le D. de Broglie. Veuillez bien en tout cas, me marquer en deux lignes si vous pouvez vous charger du paquet. The following anecdotes were written down later by Mr. Ticknor, and placed by him in the Journal according to the date:— I have spoken of Prince Talleyrand, whom I saw occasionally in Pari
Frederigo Confalonieri (search for this): chapter 13
two or three times witnessed singular contrasts on going from one to the other, just as the great question of the change of Ministry, which lasted above a fortnight, was in the agony of agitation. . . . . The Princess Aldobrandini Later, Princess Borghese. was at home every night. She is not as beautiful as she was when I knew her in Italy, but she has lost none of her vivacity, and talks still as fast as ever. A good many Italians came to her hotel, and among them my old friend, Count Confalonieri of Milan; but the old Duc de la Rochefoucauld, her grandfather, was the most amusing and interesting of all the persons I met there. It is the same who was in America, and he still retains the hardy, vigorous, independent mind that must always have distinguished one who has passed without loss of honor through so many revolutions, and is still as good-humored and kind as all his friends have uniformly found him. . . . . The Duchess de Grammont had a soiree for the Liberals every S
Henry Brougham (search for this): chapter 13
t. 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, whom I did not likts sallies are often logic in masquerade, his good-sense and good-nature are so prevalent that he never, or rarely, offends against the proprieties of life or society, and never says anything that he or anybody else need to regret afterwards. Brougham, whom I knew in society, and from seeing him both at his chambers and at my own lodgings, is now about thirty-eight, tall, thin, and rather awkward, with a plain and not very expressive countenance, and simple or even slovenly manners. He is ev
Mille (search for this): chapter 13
es amities, et vous prier, de vouloir bien vous charger de quelques feuilles imprimees, pour la maison de Sir Joseph Banks. Le celebre botaniste M. Brown, qui a éte a la Nouvelle Hollande, et qui est le Bibliothecaire de Mr. Banks, me demande avec instance, le 4me volume de mes Nova Genera Plantarum, qui renferme les Composees que nous avons decouvertes, M. Bonpland et moi, et que Mr. Kunth a decrites. Je vous supplie en grace de me renvoyer le pacquet, si vous le trouvez trop volumineux. Mille tendres amities. Ce Lundi. A. Humboldt. J'espere vous voir ce soir, chez le D. de Broglie. Veuillez bien en tout cas, me marquer en deux lignes si vous pouvez vous charger du paquet. The following anecdotes were written down later by Mr. Ticknor, and placed by him in the Journal according to the date:— I have spoken of Prince Talleyrand, whom I saw occasionally in Paris this winter (1818-19), and of whom I have given my general impressions. The passage in which Mr. Ticknor
... 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17