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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
islands broke their pure, smooth expanse. After rowing an hour and a quarter we came to a hunting-lodge of the King of Bavaria, Note by Mr. Ticknor: The King comes here every summer and hunts. Sometimes he hunts chamois, which are then driven a costly sport,—the forenoon's frolic having been paid for with 12,000 thalers (9,000 dollars),—and the present King of Bavaria is too economical to indulge in it often. built on a narrow strip of alluvial earth, which here stretches out into the lh. There we passed a week, which was quite filled with visits to the many fine buildings erected by the present King of Bavaria, and to the numberless fresco-paintings with which he has covered their walls. The Glyptothek——an affected name for a sture is so far advanced, that more can be done for human nature than by such costly patronage of the arts. At least, in Bavaria it is obtained at much too dear a cost. . . . . From Munich we intended to have plunged at once into the mountains o
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 4: (search)
e, too neglected to be quite fit to see ladies; but this is the only way he is ever found, and we forgot his appearance in his good-nature and his kindness. He showed us everything; his collection of pictures, chiefly of living German artists, with one or two ancient ones, and a pencil-sketch by Raffaelle over the head of his bed, and a few things of his own in progress, especially the fresh model in clay of a statue of Conradin—mentioned by Dante—which he is making for the Crown Prince of Bavaria, who intends it for the grave of that unfortunate Prince at Naples. Note by Mr. Ticknor: The last of the Hohenstauffen is now buried so obscurely in a church in Naples, that his grave is rarely noticed; but Dante's verse and Thorwaldsen's statue will prevent him from ever being forgotten. This work was left unfinished by Thorwaldsen, but was completed by Schopf, and set up in the church of the Madonna del Carmine at Naples, in 1847. . . . . Thorwaldsen has for some years refused to
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
366, 372, 387. Baudissin, Count, I. 467, 468, 473 and note, 475, 476, 482, 491. Baudissin, Countess, I. 467. Bauer, Mademoiselle, I. 469, 478 and note. Bavaria, Crown Prince of (Ludwig I.), I. 177. Beaufort, Lady, II. 385. Beaumont, Elie de, II. 125. Beaumont, Gustave de, I. 421. Beauvillers, M., I. 122. Becchit to Europe, 402-511, II. 1-183. 1835-36. England, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, I. 402-456; winter in Dresden, 456-492; Berlin, Bohemia, 493-511. 1836-37. Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Italy, II. 1-58, winter in Rome, 58-86. 1837-38. Italy, Tyrol, Bavaria, Heidelberg, 87-101; winter in Paris, 102-143; London and Scotland, 144-183; Bavaria, Heidelberg, 87-101; winter in Paris, 102-143; London and Scotland, 144-183; return to America, 183, 184. 1838-56. Life in Boston, 184-311; summers at Woods' Hole, 187, 208-210; journeys, 221. 222; Geneseo, 225; journeys, 226-228; Manchester, Mass., 239, 268; journeys and Lake George, 277, 281, 289. 1840-49. History of Spanish Literature, 243-262. 1850. Visit to Washington, 263, 264. 1852-67. Connection