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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... spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius , the historians of Portugal are little better than dry journalists . But it is not their inelegance which rendered the poet necessary . It is the peculiar nature of poetry to give a ...
... spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius , the historians of Portugal are little better than dry journalists . But it is not their inelegance which rendered the poet necessary . It is the peculiar nature of poetry to give a ...
Sida xxii
... spirit of a downward age . To the eye of a careful observer , the fate of Camoëns throws great light on that of his country , and will appear strictly connected with it . The same ignorance , the same degenerate spirit , which suffered ...
... spirit of a downward age . To the eye of a careful observer , the fate of Camoëns throws great light on that of his country , and will appear strictly connected with it . The same ignorance , the same degenerate spirit , which suffered ...
Sida xxiii
... spirit which glows throughout the Lusiad , it evidently appears that the courage and manners of Camoëns flowed from true greatness and dignity of soul . Though his polished conversation was often courted by the great , he appears so ...
... spirit which glows throughout the Lusiad , it evidently appears that the courage and manners of Camoëns flowed from true greatness and dignity of soul . Though his polished conversation was often courted by the great , he appears so ...
Sida xxix
... spirit of poetry throws itself into fictions which makes the whole appear as an effusion of prophetic fury , and not like a rigid detail of facts , given under the sanction of witnesses . Contrary to Lucan , who , in the above rules ...
... spirit of poetry throws itself into fictions which makes the whole appear as an effusion of prophetic fury , and not like a rigid detail of facts , given under the sanction of witnesses . Contrary to Lucan , who , in the above rules ...
Sida xxxi
... by him- self , we are told by the editor of his Letters , that " during the unsettled times of our anarchy , some of his MSS . , falling by misfortune into un- the true spirit of poetical translation . For this , AND ON EPIC POETRY . -xxxi.
... by him- self , we are told by the editor of his Letters , that " during the unsettled times of our anarchy , some of his MSS . , falling by misfortune into un- the true spirit of poetical translation . For this , AND ON EPIC POETRY . -xxxi.
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