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Page xv
... 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 ...
Page 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 ...
Page xxv
... arms are extended over the waves . It is the guardian of that foreign ocean , unploughed before by any ship . He complains of being obliged to submit to fate , and to the audacious undertaking of the Portuguese , and foretells them all ...
... arms are extended over the waves . It is the guardian of that foreign ocean , unploughed before by any ship . He complains of being obliged to submit to fate , and to the audacious undertaking of the Portuguese , and foretells them all ...
Page xxviii
... arms for a woman compared to this ! Troy is in ashes , and even the Roman empire is no more . But * The drama and the epopoeia are in nothing so different as in this- the subjects of the drama are inexhaustible , those of the epopœia ...
... arms for a woman compared to this ! Troy is in ashes , and even the Roman empire is no more . But * The drama and the epopoeia are in nothing so different as in this- the subjects of the drama are inexhaustible , those of the epopœia ...
Page 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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