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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Page ix
... Christ's Wounds at Lisbon , on 11th April , 1542 , Camoëns first beheld Doña Caterina de Atayde , the object of his purest and earliest attachment . . . and it was not long before Camoëns enjoyed an opportunity of declaring his ...
... Christ's Wounds at Lisbon , on 11th April , 1542 , Camoëns first beheld Doña Caterina de Atayde , the object of his purest and earliest attachment . . . and it was not long before Camoëns enjoyed an opportunity of declaring his ...
Page xvi
... Christ , and general of the Portuguese army , was not reduced beneath her rank . She had three sons , who took the name of Camoëns . The family of the eldest intermarried with the first nobility of Portugal , and even , according to ...
... Christ , and general of the Portuguese army , was not reduced beneath her rank . She had three sons , who took the name of Camoëns . The family of the eldest intermarried with the first nobility of Portugal , and even , according to ...
Page xxi
... Christian , resigned his kingdom and became a monk . Such was the learn- ing patronized by Henry , under whose auspices that horrid tribunal , the Inquisition , was erected at Lisbon , where he himself long presided as Inquisitor ...
... Christian , resigned his kingdom and became a monk . Such was the learn- ing patronized by Henry , under whose auspices that horrid tribunal , the Inquisition , was erected at Lisbon , where he himself long presided as Inquisitor ...
Page xxvi
... Christ , but it is Venus who comes to his relief ;; the heroes are Christians , and the poet heathen . The main design which the Portuguese are supposed to have ( next to promoting their trade ) is to propagate Christianity ; yet ...
... Christ , but it is Venus who comes to his relief ;; the heroes are Christians , and the poet heathen . The main design which the Portuguese are supposed to have ( next to promoting their trade ) is to propagate Christianity ; yet ...
Page xxviii
... Christian and pagan heroes , we have a Priam , an Agamem- non , an Achilles , etc. , armies slaughtered , and a city besieged , In a word , we have a handsome copy of the Iliad in the Jerusalem Delivered . If some imitations , however ...
... Christian and pagan heroes , we have a Priam , an Agamem- non , an Achilles , etc. , armies slaughtered , and a city besieged , In a word , we have a handsome copy of the Iliad in the Jerusalem Delivered . If some imitations , however ...
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