 Portugal resembles a vessel impelled by a favouring breeze over a calm sea, undisturbed by any displeasing inequality of motion. The restless feeling so often perceptible in English society hardly exists in Portugal : there are no ardent aspirations after...  Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil - Pagina 73door William Henry Giles Kingston - 1845Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - 1836 - 838 pagina’s
...impelled by a favouring breeze over a calm sea, yet undisturbed by any displeasing inequality of motion. The restless feeling so often perceptible in English...aspirations after fashion ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society, and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an effect, but simply because... | |
 | Henry John G. Herbert (3rd earl of Carnarvon.) - 1837 - 844 pagina’s
...impelled by a favouring breeze over a calm sea, undisturbed by any displeasing inequality of motion. The restless feeling so often perceptible in English...aspirations after fashion ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society, and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an effect, but simply because... | |
 | 1848 - 874 pagina’s
...impelled by a favouring breeze over a calm sea, undisturbed by any displeasing inequality of motion. ' The restless feeling so often perceptible in English...aspirations after fashion ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society j and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an effect, but simply because... | |
 | William Hadfield - 1854 - 412 pagina’s
...by no means purely artificial, but flows, in a great measure, from a national kindness of feeling. The restless feeling, so often perceptible in English society, hardly exists in Portugal ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society, and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an... | |
 | William Hadfield - 1854 - 408 pagina’s
...by no means purely artificial, but flows, in a great measure, from a national kindness of feeling. The restless feeling, so often perceptible in English society, hardly exists in Portugal ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society, and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an... | |
 | Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - 1861 - 400 pagina’s
...impelled by a favouring breeze over a calm sea, undisturbed by any displeasing inequality of motion. The restless feeling so often perceptible in English...aspirations after fashion ; there is little prepared wit in Portuguese society, and no one talks for the mere purpose of producing an effect, but simply because... | |
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