The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem, Volume 2Graisberry and Campbell, 1791 - Explorers |
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... Brahmins claim : In wildest rituals , vain and painful , loft , Brahma their founder as a god they boaft . To crown their meal no meaneft life expires , Pulfe , fruit , and herbs alone their board requires : Alone in lewdnefs riotous ...
... Brahmins claim : In wildest rituals , vain and painful , loft , Brahma their founder as a god they boaft . To crown their meal no meaneft life expires , Pulfe , fruit , and herbs alone their board requires : Alone in lewdnefs riotous ...
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... Brahmin train The vifions rofe , that never rose in vain . The The vifions rofe - The pretenfions to , and belief in divination and magic , are found in the history of every nation and age . The fources from whence those opinions fprung ...
... Brahmin train The vifions rofe , that never rose in vain . The The vifions rofe - The pretenfions to , and belief in divination and magic , are found in the history of every nation and age . The fources from whence those opinions fprung ...
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... The Betel . This is a particular luxury of the east . The Indians powder it with the fruit of Areca , or drunken date tree , and chew it , fwallowing The patriarch Brahmin , soft and flow he rose , BOOK VII . 229 THE LUSIAD .
... The Betel . This is a particular luxury of the east . The Indians powder it with the fruit of Areca , or drunken date tree , and chew it , fwallowing The patriarch Brahmin , soft and flow he rose , BOOK VII . 229 THE LUSIAD .
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... Brahmin , soft and flow he rose , Advancing now to lordly GAMA bows , And leads him to the throne : in filent state The monarch's nod affigns the captain's feat ; The Lufian train in humbler distance stand : Silent the monarch eyes the ...
... Brahmin , soft and flow he rose , Advancing now to lordly GAMA bows , And leads him to the throne : in filent state The monarch's nod affigns the captain's feat ; The Lufian train in humbler distance stand : Silent the monarch eyes the ...
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... BRAHMINS . E AN account of the celebrated fect of the Brahmins , and an enquiry into their theology and philofophy , are undoubtedly re- quifite in the notes of a poem which celebrates the difcovery of the eastern world ; of a poem ...
... BRAHMINS . E AN account of the celebrated fect of the Brahmins , and an enquiry into their theology and philofophy , are undoubtedly re- quifite in the notes of a poem which celebrates the difcovery of the eastern world ; of a poem ...
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Æneid againſt alfo almoſt Alonzo alſo ancient arms behold Beneath blaze boaſt bofom bold Brahma Brahmins brave breaſt Caftile Camöens Ceuta Chineſe Chriftians dæmon defcription defire diſplay divine dread eaſt eaſtern eſteemed eyes fable facred faid fame Faria fate fays feems fent feven fhades fhall fhining fhore fierce filver fire firft firſt flain fleet fmiles fome foon foul ftill ftream fubject fuch fwelling fword Gama Gentoos glorious greateſt heaven heroes himſelf hiſtory Holwell holy Homer honour India inſpired iſland king king of Portugal laſt loft Lufian Lufus moft monarch Moorish Moors moſt muſt nymphs o'er obferved paffion philofophers poem poet Portugal Portugueſe prefent prince proud rage rife rofe ſays ſhall ſhe ſhore ſhould ſkies ſky ſpirit ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill Tagus tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thoſe thou thouſand toils tranflation trembling Virgil warlike waves whofe whoſe
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Page 98 - Through howling tempefts, and through gulphs untry'd, " O ! mighty God ! be thou our watchful guide.
Page 51 - If prowling tygers, or the wolf's wild brood, Inspired by nature with the lust of blood, Have yet been moved the weeping babe to spare, Nor left, but tended with a nurse's care, As Rome's great founders to the world were given ; Shalt thou, who...
Page 124 - From these rude shores our fearless course we held, Beneath the glistening wave the god of day Had now five times withdrawn, the parting ray, When o'er the prow a sudden darkness spread, And slowly floating o'er the mast's tall head A black cloud...
Page 49 - Each echo sighed thy princely lover's name. Nor less could absence from thy prince remove The dear remembrance of his distant love : Thy looks, thy smiles, before him ever glow, And o'er his melting heart endearing flow ; By night his slumbers bring...
Page 396 - Each fragrant herb her sweetest scent exhales ; The hyacinth bewrays the doleful Ai, And calls the tribute of Apollo's sigh ; Still on its bloom the mournful flower retains The lovely blue that dyed the stripling's veins.
Page 236 - Whofe name fhall live till earth and time expire, His wonder fixt ; and more than human glow'd The hero's look ; his robes of Grecian mode ; A bough, his...
Page 125 - An earthly paleness o'er his cheeks was spread, Erect uprose his hairs of wither'd red ; .Writhing to speak, his sable lips disclose, Sharp and disjoin'd, his gnashing teeth's blue rows ; His haggard beard flow'd quivering on the wind, Revenge and horror in his mien combined...
Page 437 - Though winds and feas their wonted aid deny, To yield he knows not, but he knows to die : Another thunder tears his manly breaft : Oh fly, bleft fpirit, to thy heavenly reft Hark, rolling on the groaning ftorm I hear, Refiftlefs...
Page 396 - ... o'er the lily's milk-white bosom glows ; Fresh in the dew far o'er the painted dales, Each fragrant herb her sweetest scent exhales...
Page 220 - Poleas the labouring lower clans are named; By the proud Nayres the noble rank is claimed...