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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
miles round; so that as a park, or, in fact, as a fine country establishment, there are few, I suspect, in Europe, to compare with it. . . . . Aranjuez, like the Escorial and St. Ildefonso, marks its Fasti with several famous events, of which the most remarkable is the last. I mean the Revolution, which finally broke out here, on the 17th-18th March, 1808, and the meeting in October, of the Central Junta, which fled before the approach of the French to Seville, on the 21st November. Southey gives this as the date of a proclamation issued from Aranjuez by the Junta, and describes their retreat later, without specifying the day. This flight probably finishes the history of the political importance of Aranjuez; but its exquisite scenery, and all the beauties which nature has so lavishly poured around it, and which, from the time of Argensola to that of Quintana, have been one of the favorite subjects of Spanish poetry, will remain the same, whether cultivated and cherished by roy
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
s. Fletcher. Playfair. Scott. Abbotsford. Southey. Wordsworth. Dr. Parr. Sir James MacKINTOScourage, than I was at the moment I entered Mr. Southey's door. The kindness of his reception gaverom the time I left Cogswell at Selkirk. Mr. Southey introduced me to Mrs. Coleridge, a good resof it. Oliver Newman was left unfinished. Mr. Southey promised Mr. Ticknor the autograph manuscri for some years, and some of the letters from Southey appear in his Memoirs. He has, however, finist of pouring oil on troubled waters. .. . . . Southey was pleasant during the walk and still more se. After all, however, my recollections of Southey rest rather on his domestic life and his chared the character Heaven destined to them than Southey. . . . . March 21.—An extremely pleasant d ought to be satisfied. Wordsworth knew from Southey that I was coming, and therefore met me at thand manners, more perfect than I had found at Southey's, and, as such, was very curious. We sat u[2 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
en cited, full of the sincerest and most natural passion, to prove that nothing but a genuine attachment could have given birth to the whole series of poems; and these have been answered by a thousand others, composed of mere puns and conceits, which are as remote from nature as possible. The one you cite, of his strong impression that Laura will retain in heaven the features he loved on earth, and that he shall see and love them again, is no doubt eminently natural; but it is applied, in Southey's Curse of Kehama, by one imaginary being to another, and therefore might have been well applied by a real poet to a fancied mistress. I remember, too, to have seen, somewhere, great trust put upon the exquisite phrase, lasciando tenebroso, onde si move, as too fresh from the heart of a lover to be considered mere poetry; and yet Milton has made Adam say of Eve, She disappeared, and left me dark, and Spenser, reversing the medal, says, yet more beautifully, of Una, that her angel's fac
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22: (search)
. . . Bidding farewell to the Wordsworths and the Fletchers, we drove on to Keswick. Keswick, September 3.—We came here by invitation to pass the evening with Southey, but we accepted the invitation with some hesitation, for Mrs. Southey has been several months hopelessly deranged, and is supposed now to be sinking away. . .. .Mrs. Southey has been several months hopelessly deranged, and is supposed now to be sinking away. . .. . He received us very kindly, but was much moved when he showed me his only son, and reminded me that I had last seen him hardly three weeks old, in his cradle in the same room. . . . . Southey was natural and kind, but evidently depressed, much altered since I saw him fifteen years ago, a little bent, and his hair quite white. Southey was natural and kind, but evidently depressed, much altered since I saw him fifteen years ago, a little bent, and his hair quite white. He showed me the materials for his edition of Cowper and the beginning of the Life; the last work, he says, he shall ever do for the booksellers. Among the materials was the autograph manuscript of John Gilpin, and many letters .. . . . He read us, too, about three cantos of his Oliver Newman,—the poem on American ground,—some of<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
essor W., 271, 272, 415 and note, 438, 439. Sneyd, Miss, Mary, 426, 428. Solmar, Miss, 495. Somerville, Dr., 448. Somerville, Mrs., 411, 412, 448, 479. Sommariva, Marchese, 175. Sonntag, M., 460. Southey, Edith and Isabella, 285. Southey, Mrs. R., 286 and note, 434. Southey, Robert, 50, 135, 136, 285-287, 434. Souza, Mad. de, 248. Souza, M de, 252, 267. Spain, government of, 191; Inquisition, 193, visit in, 185-241. Spanish bull-fights, 202-204; law courts, 233; people, Southey, Robert, 50, 135, 136, 285-287, 434. Souza, Mad. de, 248. Souza, M de, 252, 267. Spain, government of, 191; Inquisition, 193, visit in, 185-241. Spanish bull-fights, 202-204; law courts, 233; people, 198, 242; libraries, 197, 215, 216, 252, 457; literature, passage on, in inaugural address, 320; lectures on, 325 and note; books, G. T.'s collection of, 325 note. Sparmann, Herr, 504 note. Spencer, Second Earl, 269, 295. Spencer, Third Earl ( Honest Althorp ), 442-445. Sprengel, Professor, 111-113. Stackelberg, Count, 460. Stael, Baron Auguste de, 128, 138, 139, 151, 155, 312; letter from, 313; writings, 314 and note. Stael, Mad. de, work on Germany, 11, 98; opinion of Lady Davy,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
te. April 1.—A delightful breakfast at Kenyon's. Southey and his son were there; Chorley, the biographer of and much given to music; and two or three others. Southey, who is in town for two or three days, is grown oldive is better authority on such a point than Allen, Southey, too, this morning, was equally decided, though he self has a good deal of acuteness. In talking of Southey and Wordsworth, he said—what is according to my ownrth has a keen enjoyment of life, and he added that Southey is become extremely weary of life. Not long since,body was predicting what they should see, if he and Southey lived ten years longer. Without directly interrupting him, Southey clasped his hands and cast his eyes upward, ejaculating parenthetically, Which God in his infi this melancholy state, I understand, ever since Mrs. Southey first gave signs of insanity, about five years areature I knew, just sixteen years old, in 1819, at Southey's. But she was very lady-like and gentle in her man
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
Chapter 9: Abbotsford. Edinburgh. Maxwells of Terregles. Wordsworth and Southey. Manchester. Mr. And Mrs. Greg. Oxford. Althorp. London. return to America. Journal. in honor of the castle and the family. . . . . On the 8th of May, arriving at Keswick:— Southey received us as usual, in his nice and somewhat peculiar library, but seemed more sad, and abstr, a very intelligent man, who seemed to have travelled everywhere . . . . I talked chiefly with Southey himself, who seemed to like to be apart from those around him, and to talk in a very low, gentlof voice. He showed me a curious letter from Brougham, soon after he became Chancellor, asking Southey's advice about encouraging literature by rewards to men of letters; and his answer, saying thaton's, where we met Davies Gilbert,—the former President of the Royal Society,—Guillemard, young Southey, and Mr. Andrew Crosse, of Somersetshire, who has made so much noise of late with his crystall<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
. I am the more anxious to write to you now, because I wish to offer you a book published last year by one of my most intimate friends; the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Mr. William H. Prescott, of this city, a work which has obtained great success in England as well as in this country, and which is beginning to be known in France and Germany. Our friend Count Circourt published an elaborate review of it lately in the Bibliotheque Universelle, giving it great praise; and Hallam, Southey, and others of the best judges in England have placed it equally high. I wish to offer it to you, therefore, as a specimen of the progress of letters in this country at the present time, and I think it will give you pleasure to look over it. To Baron Lindenau I send, by the same conveyance, a Commentary on the Mecanique Celeste of La Place, By Dr. Bowditch. which marks the limit of our advancement in the exact sciences. But everything with us makes progress. I am struck with it on a
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
, which I am sure will all be welcome. Please to let me know when you have taken up the remainder of the money in Mr. Irving's hands, and I will send more. From Southey's sale I obtained about thirty volumes, I understand; but, though I believe I have received from it all the Spanish books of any real value that I ordered, I did order, because Rich was afraid he should bid too high, though he spent only half the sum I sent him, with directions to return none of it, except in the shape of Southey's books. . . . . I will send you, as soon as I can have it made out after my return home, a list of my Spanish books; and shall always be glad to have you makend one of the books I then asked you to procure for me was the Carcel de Amor, de Diego de San Pedro. I do not now need it, for it is among the books I bought at Southey's sale. To Don P. De Gayangos. Boston, August 24, 1844. my dear Mr. Gayangos,—I wrote to you on the 24th July, from Niagara Falls, since which I have
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
dmund Head. Boston, June 14, 1852. my dear Sir Edmund,—I begin with business, for I observe that you are very accurate in such matters, and I mean to be, though I fail sometimes . . . . Thank you for the reference to the passage copied by Southey, from Zabaleta, about las ambas silas. Sir E. Head to Mr. Ticknor, June 5, 1852: Have you got the first volume of Southey's Commonplace book ? If so, you will see, at page 62, a passage illustrating the use of the phrase las dos sillas. It apSouthey's Commonplace book ? If so, you will see, at page 62, a passage illustrating the use of the phrase las dos sillas. It appears there to mean the seat of war and the seat of peace; of the manage and the road. It seems, there, to be used in its primitive and literal sense, though I do not quite make out what are the two particular sills referred to. As a proverbial expression, sometimes ambas sillas, referring to the silla a la quieta and the albarda, and sometimes de todas sillas, referring to all modes of mounting and riding, I suppose it means what we mean when we say a man is up to anything, just as the conver
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