 | 1847 - Страниц: 662
...above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge of the world...and his faculties as bright as ever. He is one of three persons still living who were mentioned by Pope : Lord Marchmount and Lord Mansfield are the... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - Страниц: 488
...above ninety years old; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge of the world...of Southern, the tragic poet, and all the wits of that time. He is perhaps the oldest man of a gentleman living. I went to. see him the other day, and... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - Страниц: 500
...finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes aH my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, hia knowledge of the world extensive, and his faculties...of Southern, the tragic poet, and all the wits of that time. He is perhaps the oldest man of a genlleman living. I went to see him the other day,, and... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - Страниц: 512
...one of the three persons still living who were mentioned by Pope ; Lord Mansfield and Lord Marchrnont are the other two. He was the intimate friend of Southern, the tragic poet, and of all the wits of that time. He is perhaps the oldest man of a gentleman living. I went to see him... | |
 | Georgia Historical Society - 1840 - Страниц: 334
...above ninety years old.. The finest figure you ever saw. He frequently realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great ; his knowledge of the world...as bright as ever. He is one of the three persons mentioned by Pope, still living ; Lord Mansfield, and Lord Marchmont are the other two. He was the... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1841 - Страниц: 466
...above ninety years old; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great; his knowledge of the world...of Southern, the tragic poet, and all the wits of that time. He is, perhaps, the oldest man of a Gentleman living. I went to see him the other day, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - Страниц: 578
...him when he had passed the age of ninety, she says, " He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor ; his literature is great ; his knowledge of the world...extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever." On another occasion she says ; " Burke talked a great deal of politics with General Oglethorpe ; he... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - Страниц: 600
...him when he had passed the a«e of ninety, she says, " He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor ; his literature is great ; his knowledge of the world...extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever." On another occasion she says ; " Burke talked a great deal of politics with General Oglethorpe ; he... | |
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... we flirt together prodigiously ; it is the famous General Oglethorpe, perhaps the most remarkable man of his time. He was foster-brother to the Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all... 
