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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... sources of information regarding the illustrious , but * Poems of Luis de Camoëns , with Remarks on his Life and Writings . By Lord Viscount Strangford . Fifth edition . London , 1808 . unfortunate , bard of Portugal , I make no apology.
... sources of information regarding the illustrious , but * Poems of Luis de Camoëns , with Remarks on his Life and Writings . By Lord Viscount Strangford . Fifth edition . London , 1808 . unfortunate , bard of Portugal , I make no apology.
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... Portugal , I make no apology for presenting to the reader an abstract of his lordship's memoir . Much further information will be found , how ever , in an able article contained in No. 53 of the Quarterly Review for July , 1822 , from ...
... Portugal , I make no apology for presenting to the reader an abstract of his lordship's memoir . Much further information will be found , how ever , in an able article contained in No. 53 of the Quarterly Review for July , 1822 , from ...
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... Portugal were peculiarly severe against those who arried on a love - intrigue within the palace : they punished the ffence with death . Joam I. suffered one of his favourites to be urnt alive for it.-Ed. placed between him and felicity ...
... Portugal were peculiarly severe against those who arried on a love - intrigue within the palace : they punished the ffence with death . Joam I. suffered one of his favourites to be urnt alive for it.-Ed. placed between him and felicity ...
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... Portugal . " Camoëns sank under the pressure of penury and disease , and died in an alms - house , early in 1579 , and was buried in the church of Sta . Anna of the Franciscan Friars . Over his grave Gonzalo Coutinho placed the ...
... Portugal . " Camoëns sank under the pressure of penury and disease , and died in an alms - house , early in 1579 , and was buried in the church of Sta . Anna of the Franciscan Friars . Over his grave Gonzalo Coutinho placed the ...
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... Portugal had reached its meridian splendour , Nature , as if in pity of the literary rudeness of that nation , produced a great poet to record the numberless actions of high spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius , the ...
... Portugal had reached its meridian splendour , Nature , as if in pity of the literary rudeness of that nation , produced a great poet to record the numberless actions of high spirit performed by his countrymen . Except Osorius , the ...
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