The Lusiad, Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem, Translated from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns, with a Life of the PoetGeorge Bell, 1889 - 358 sidor This poem, written in Homeric style, focuses on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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... arms of Portugal had reached its meridian splendour , Nature , as if in pity of the literary rudeness of that nation , produced a great poet to record the numberless actions of high spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius ...
... arms of Portugal had reached its meridian splendour , Nature , as if in pity of the literary rudeness of that nation , produced a great poet to record the numberless actions of high spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius ...
Sida xix
... arms , and received the allowance of a gentleman- * Having named the Mecon , or Meekhaun , a river of Cochin China , he says Este recebera placido , e brando , No seu regaço o Canto , que molhado , etc. Literally thus : " On his gentle ...
... arms , and received the allowance of a gentleman- * Having named the Mecon , or Meekhaun , a river of Cochin China , he says Este recebera placido , e brando , No seu regaço o Canto , que molhado , etc. Literally thus : " On his gentle ...
Sida xxv
... arms are extended over the waves . It is e guardian of that foreign ocean , unploughed before by any ship . e complains of being obliged to submit to fate , and to the dacious undertaking of the Portuguese , and foretells them all e ...
... arms are extended over the waves . It is e guardian of that foreign ocean , unploughed before by any ship . e complains of being obliged to submit to fate , and to the dacious undertaking of the Portuguese , and foretells them all e ...
Sida xxx
... arms of poetry . Yet , however un- successful others may have been , Camoëns has proved that fire- arms may be introduced with the greatest dignity , and the finest effect in the epic poem . As the grand interest of commerce and of ...
... arms of poetry . Yet , however un- successful others may have been , Camoëns has proved that fire- arms may be introduced with the greatest dignity , and the finest effect in the epic poem . As the grand interest of commerce and of ...
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... arms are so greatly superior to themselves . The use of the twenty - four letters , by which we can express every language , appeared at first as miraculous to the Chinese . Pre- judice cannot always deprive that people , who are not ...
... arms are so greatly superior to themselves . The use of the twenty - four letters , by which we can express every language , appeared at first as miraculous to the Chinese . Pre- judice cannot always deprive that people , who are not ...
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