| Luís de Camões - Poetry, Portuguese - 1809 - 286 pages
...the court, and he obtained permission to return to Lisbon. But while he solicited an establishment which he had merited in the ranks of battle, the malignity...tongues, as he calls it in one of his letters, was injuriously poured upon him. Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several years residence... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...the court, and he obtained permiffion to return to Liibon. But, while he folicited an eftablifliment which he had merited in the ranks of battle, the malignity...altered by the lofs •of an eye, his prefence gave uneafinefs to the gentlemen of fome families of the firft rank where he had formerly vifited. Jealouly... | |
| Asia - 1818 - 762 pages
...the court, and he obtained permission to return to Lisbon. But while he solicited an establishment which he had merited in the ranks of battle, the malignity...evil tongues, as he calls it in one of his letters, vas injuriously poured upon him. Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several years residence... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...and he obtained permission to return to Lisbon. But, while he solicited an establishment which he bad merited in the ranks of battle, the malignity of evil...tongues, as he calls it in one of his letters, was injuriously poured upon him. Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several years residence... | |
| Luis Vaz de Camoens - 1877 - 498 pages
...the Court, and he obtained permission to return to Lisbon. But while he solicited an establishment which he had merited in the ranks of battle, the malignity...tongues (as he calls it in one of his letters) was injuriously poured upon him. Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several years' residence... | |
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