 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...  The North American Review - Pàgina 3111848Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1847 - 662 pàgines
...to the 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. He is one of three persons still living who were mentioned... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 492 pàgines
...19 the 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 ; he is one of the three persons still living who were... | |
 | Georgia Historical Society - 1840 - 334 pàgines
...He frequently realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great ; his knowledge of the world extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever. He...Mansfield, and Lord Marchmont are the other two. He was the intimate friend of Southern, the Tragic Poet, and all the wits of that time. He is perhaps the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pàgines
...letters. Speaking of 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 knowledge of the world extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever." On another occasion she says ; " Burke talked a great... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pàgines
...letters. Speaking 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 knowledge of the world extensive ; and his faculties as bright as ever." On another occasion she says ; " Burke talked a great... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1844 - 438 pàgines
...to the 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. He is one of the three persons, still living, who were... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1844 - 436 pàgines
...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. He is one of the three persons, still living, who were mentioned by Pope ; Lord Mansfield and Lord Marchmont are the other two. He... | |
 | Hannah More - 1862 - 378 pàgines
...to the 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 ; he is one of the three persons still living who were... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 pàgines
...to the 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. * * He is quite & preux chevalier; heroic, romantic,... | |
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