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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... Lusian race reply , " To reach the golden Eastern shores we try . Through that unbounded sea whose billows roll From the cold northern to the southern pole ; And by the wide extent , the dreary vast Of Afric's bays , already have we ...
... Lusian race reply , " To reach the golden Eastern shores we try . Through that unbounded sea whose billows roll From the cold northern to the southern pole ; And by the wide extent , the dreary vast Of Afric's bays , already have we ...
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... Lusian race beheld , And each brave breast with indignation swell'd , To view such foes , like snarling dogs , display Their threat'ning tusks , and brave the sanguine fray : Together with a bound they spring to land , Unknown whose ...
... Lusian race beheld , And each brave breast with indignation swell'd , To view such foes , like snarling dogs , display Their threat'ning tusks , and brave the sanguine fray : Together with a bound they spring to land , Unknown whose ...
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... Lusian blood : Thus weening to revenge Mozambique's fate , And give full surfeit to the Moorish hate ; And now their ... Lusians sprung from the sea , would be apt to exclaim , Behold , the birth of the terrestrial Venus ! How can a ...
... Lusian blood : Thus weening to revenge Mozambique's fate , And give full surfeit to the Moorish hate ; And now their ... Lusians sprung from the sea , would be apt to exclaim , Behold , the birth of the terrestrial Venus ! How can a ...
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... Moors , by the violence of a sudden wind the arrows of the latter were driven back upon themselves , whereby many of their troops were wounded . Such prowess there shall raise the Lusian name That Mars 44 [ BOOK II . THE LUSIAD .
... Moors , by the violence of a sudden wind the arrows of the latter were driven back upon themselves , whereby many of their troops were wounded . Such prowess there shall raise the Lusian name That Mars 44 [ BOOK II . THE LUSIAD .
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... Lusian name That Mars shall tremble for his blighted fame ; There shall the Moors , blaspheming , sink in death , And curse their Prophet with their parting breath . " Where Goa's warlike ramparts frown on high , Pleas'd shalt thou see ...
... Lusian name That Mars shall tremble for his blighted fame ; There shall the Moors , blaspheming , sink in death , And curse their Prophet with their parting breath . " Where Goa's warlike ramparts frown on high , Pleas'd shalt thou see ...
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