The Lusiad, Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem, Translated from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns, with a Life of the PoetThis 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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... Cape of Storms , appears to tem , walking in the depth of the sea ; his head reaches to the ouds ; the storms , the winds , the thunders , and the lightnings ang about him ; his arms are extended over the waves . It is e guardian of ...
... Cape of Storms , appears to tem , walking in the depth of the sea ; his head reaches to the ouds ; the storms , the winds , the thunders , and the lightnings ang about him ; his arms are extended over the waves . It is e guardian of ...
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... Cape of Good Hope , is the grandest fiction in human composition ; the invention his own ! In the Island of Venus , the use of which fiction in an epic poem is also his own , he has given the completest assem- blage of all the flowers ...
... Cape of Good Hope , is the grandest fiction in human composition ; the invention his own ! In the Island of Venus , the use of which fiction in an epic poem is also his own , he has given the completest assem- blage of all the flowers ...
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... Cape Nam § ( as its name implies ) was then the ne plus ultra of European naviga * The dominion of the Portuguese in the Indian seas cut the sinews of the Egyptian and other Mohammedan powers . + Flanders has been the school - mistress ...
... Cape Nam § ( as its name implies ) was then the ne plus ultra of European naviga * The dominion of the Portuguese in the Indian seas cut the sinews of the Egyptian and other Mohammedan powers . + Flanders has been the school - mistress ...
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... Cape Bojador . About a league and a half from Cape St. Vincent ( supposed to be the Promontorium Sacrum of the Romans ) , Prince Henry built his town of Sagrez , the best planned and fortified town in Portugal . Here , where the view of ...
... Cape Bojador . About a league and a half from Cape St. Vincent ( supposed to be the Promontorium Sacrum of the Romans ) , Prince Henry built his town of Sagrez , the best planned and fortified town in Portugal . Here , where the view of ...
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... Cape of Bojador , till then invincible ; an action , says Faria , not inferior to the labours of Hercules . Galianez , the next year , accompanied by Gonsalez Baldaya , carried his discoveries many leagues farther . Having put two ...
... Cape of Bojador , till then invincible ; an action , says Faria , not inferior to the labours of Hercules . Galianez , the next year , accompanied by Gonsalez Baldaya , carried his discoveries many leagues farther . Having put two ...
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