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... Gama and Columbus , both the eaftern and the western worlds , confti- tutes the fubject of that celebrated epic poem , ( known hitherto in England almoft only by name ) which is now offered to the English reader . But before we proceed ...
... Gama and Columbus , both the eaftern and the western worlds , confti- tutes the fubject of that celebrated epic poem , ( known hitherto in England almoft only by name ) which is now offered to the English reader . But before we proceed ...
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... Gama . If feas of blood have been fhed by the Portuguese , nothing new was introduced into India . War and depre- dation were no unheard of strangers on the banks of the Ganges ; nor could the nature of the civil eftablishments of the ...
... Gama . If feas of blood have been fhed by the Portuguese , nothing new was introduced into India . War and depre- dation were no unheard of strangers on the banks of the Ganges ; nor could the nature of the civil eftablishments of the ...
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... Gama and Columbus have already carried a fupe- rior degree of happiness , and the promise of in- finitely more , to the Eaftern and Western Worlds ; yet the advantages derived from the discovery of these regions to Europe may perhaps be ...
... Gama and Columbus have already carried a fupe- rior degree of happiness , and the promise of in- finitely more , to the Eaftern and Western Worlds ; yet the advantages derived from the discovery of these regions to Europe may perhaps be ...
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... Gama . The Crufades to rescue the Holy Land from the infidels , which had already been , however unregarded by histori- ans , † Neglected in the idea of the commanders ; the idea of Henry however was greatly fulfilled . For the dominion ...
... Gama . The Crufades to rescue the Holy Land from the infidels , which had already been , however unregarded by histori- ans , † Neglected in the idea of the commanders ; the idea of Henry however was greatly fulfilled . For the dominion ...
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... Gama's return , he promised the king of Spain to find India by a weftward paffage . But though great discoveries rewarded his toils , his first and last purpose he never completed . It was referved for Magalhaens to discover the ...
... Gama's return , he promised the king of Spain to find India by a weftward paffage . But though great discoveries rewarded his toils , his first and last purpose he never completed . It was referved for Magalhaens to discover the ...
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The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem, Volym 1 Luís de Camões Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1791 |
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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.