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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... John III . in an expedition then fitting out against the Moors in Africa . In one the engagements with the enemy our hero had the mis fortune to lose " his right eye , by some splinters from the deck of the vessel in which he was ...
... John III . in an expedition then fitting out against the Moors in Africa . In one the engagements with the enemy our hero had the mis fortune to lose " his right eye , by some splinters from the deck of the vessel in which he was ...
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... John I. , the victor , seized a great part of his estate , his widow , the daughter of Gonsalo Tereyro , grand master of the Order of Christ , and general of the Portuguese army , was not reduced beneath her rank . She had three sons ...
... John I. , the victor , seized a great part of his estate , his widow , the daughter of Gonsalo Tereyro , grand master of the Order of Christ , and general of the Portuguese army , was not reduced beneath her rank . She had three sons ...
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... John had promised absolute ndemnity . John , with much difficulty , procured his release from a loath - ` ome jail , but could not effect his restoration as a teacher . No , he only hanged his prison , for Buchanan was sent to a ...
... John had promised absolute ndemnity . John , with much difficulty , procured his release from a loath - ` ome jail , but could not effect his restoration as a teacher . No , he only hanged his prison , for Buchanan was sent to a ...
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... John III .; if the honesty of his indignation led him into great imprudence , as certainly it did , when at Goa he satirised the viceroy and the first persons in power ; yet let it also be re- membered , that " The gifts of imagination ...
... John III .; if the honesty of his indignation led him into great imprudence , as certainly it did , when at Goa he satirised the viceroy and the first persons in power ; yet let it also be re- membered , that " The gifts of imagination ...
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... John I. ‡ all the virtues of the Portuguese again shone forth with redoubled lustre . Happily for Portugal , his father had bestowed an excellent education upon this prince , which , added to his great natural talents , rendered him one ...
... John I. ‡ all the virtues of the Portuguese again shone forth with redoubled lustre . Happily for Portugal , his father had bestowed an excellent education upon this prince , which , added to his great natural talents , rendered him one ...
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