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Sida xix
... Camoens , and transfer to the British the high compliment he pays to his countrymen ; Beneath their fway majestic , wife , and mild , Proud of her victor's laws , thrice happier India smiled . In former ages , and within these few years ...
... Camoens , and transfer to the British the high compliment he pays to his countrymen ; Beneath their fway majestic , wife , and mild , Proud of her victor's laws , thrice happier India smiled . In former ages , and within these few years ...
Sida xxxvi
... Nor can the annals of mankind produce one inftance of the fall of empire , where the character of the grandces was other than that afcribed to his countrymen by Camoens . THE THE NEW YORK PUB ARY AST ! X. ND TILDEN xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
... Nor can the annals of mankind produce one inftance of the fall of empire , where the character of the grandces was other than that afcribed to his countrymen by Camoens . THE THE NEW YORK PUB ARY AST ! X. ND TILDEN xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
Sida lix
... Camoens expreffes it : -to his native fhore , Enrich'd with knowledge , he returned no more . Men , whofe genius led them to maritime affairs , began now to be poffeffed by an ardent ambition to distinguish themselves ; and the famous ...
... Camoens expreffes it : -to his native fhore , Enrich'd with knowledge , he returned no more . Men , whofe genius led them to maritime affairs , began now to be poffeffed by an ardent ambition to distinguish themselves ; and the famous ...
Sida lxiii
... Camoens , in obedience to the rules of the Epopœia . Notwithstanding the full torrent of popular clamour against the undertaking , Emmanuel was determined to profecute the views of Prince Henry and John II . Three floops of war and a ...
... Camoens , in obedience to the rules of the Epopœia . Notwithstanding the full torrent of popular clamour against the undertaking , Emmanuel was determined to profecute the views of Prince Henry and John II . Three floops of war and a ...
Sida lxx
... Camoens . And here the store floop , now of no farther service , was burnt by order of the admiral . On December the 8th a violent ftorm drove the fleet from the fight of land , and carried them to that dreadful cur- rent * which made ...
... Camoens . And here the store floop , now of no farther service , was burnt by order of the admiral . On December the 8th a violent ftorm drove the fleet from the fight of land , and carried them to that dreadful cur- rent * which made ...
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Sida cccxlii - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Sida cclxiv - ... they transport his goods from one place to another. Those agents frequently live with the profusion of princes; and sometimes, too, in spite of that profusion, and by a proper method of making up their accounts, acquire the fortunes of princes. It was thus, as we are told by Machiavel, that the agents of Lorenzo of Medicis, not a prince of mean abilities, carried on his trade.
Sida cccxlii - And heavenly quires the hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Sida cccxxii - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Sida cccxiv - But the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of this knowledge; where we may find painted forth with great life, how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified and refrained; and how again contained from act and further degree; how they disclose themselves, how they work, how they vary, how they gather and fortify, how they are inwrapped one within another, and how they do fight and encounter one with another...
Sida ccclx - Greek fnch length of feas explore, The Greek, who forrow to the Cyclop wrought; And he, who, victor, with the harpies fought, Never fuch pomp of naval honours wore. Great as thou art, and peerlefs in renown, Yet thou to Camoens...
Sida lxvii - With such mad seas the daring Gama fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant, labouring round the stormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold.
Sida ccxcviii - Jews, in the finest strain of poetry, are represented as hanging their harps on the willows by the rivers of Babylon, and weeping their exile from their native country. Here Camoens continued some time, till an opportunity offered to carry him to Goa.
Sida cccxi - Parnassus. It is a pleasant air, but a barren soil ; and there are very few instances of those who have added to their patrimony by any thing they have reaped from thence.
Sida cclxi - Upon other occasions the order has been reversed ; and a rich field of rice or other grain has been ploughed up, in order to make room for a plantation of poppies ; when the chief foresaw that extraordinary profit was likely to be made by opium.