 Pretender, and is much 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 extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever...  James Oglethorpe: The Founder of Georgia - Page 194by Harriet Cornelia Cooper - 1904 - 217 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 662 pages
...Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge...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... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - 512 pages
...Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge...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... | |
 | Georgia Historical Society - Georgia - 1840 - 334 pages
...Pretender, and much above ninety years old.. The finest figure you ever saw. He frequently realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great ; his...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...of an interview with him when he had passed the age of ninety, she says, " He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor ; his literature is great ; his...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 - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...an interview with 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...extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever." On another occasion she says ; " Burke talked a great deal of politics with General Oglethorpe ; he... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS. M.D. - 1847 - 530 pages
...frequently realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great j his knowledge of the world is extensive ; and his faculties 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 an intimate... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 544 pages
...Pretender, and much 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 is extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever. He is one of the three persons mentioned by Pope,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge...extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever. * * He is quite & preux chevalier; heroic, romantic, and full of the old gallantry." Pope — who praised so... | |
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