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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12: (search)
rkable as the only individual who escaped from La Peyrouse's last fatal expedition,. . . . of which he never speaks but with very strong emotions, for he loved La Peyrouse like a father. Two Portuguese families are to be noted. . . . . The first is the family of the Count d'alba, whose wife is sister to the famous Count Palmella,—now just going to be the chief minister at the Brazils,—and is considered the most cultivated woman in the highest class of the nobility. Like her sister, Mad. de Souza,—who gave me my letter to her,—she is rather awkward and dry in her manner; but still she is interesting, because she endeavors to be so by good sense and unpretending kindness; and if she had not lived nearly four miles off, I should have gone to see her often. For the same reason I saw but little of the Duchess de Cadaval, the most distinguished and the most extraordinary woman in Portugal. She is daughter of the Duke of Luxembourg, and married the Duke de Cadaval, who was of the Brag
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
ance 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 hd of sensual enjoyment to him. If he had been born in Asia, he would have 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 good talk without pretension, which make it, as an elegant society, the best I have seen in Europe
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
, 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, 198, 242; libraries, 197, 215, 216, 252, 457; literature, passage on, in inaugural 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, 57; work on England, 60, 61, 119, 126-130, 132, 133, 136, 138; death of, 151, 189,