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 xi
... commands a splendid view of the city and harbour of Macao . An engraving of it may be seen in Ouseley's Oriental Collections , and another will be found in Sir G. Staunton's Account of the Embassy to China . A little temple , in the ...
... commands a splendid view of the city and harbour of Macao . An engraving of it may be seen in Ouseley's Oriental Collections , and another will be found in Sir G. Staunton's Account of the Embassy to China . A little temple , in the ...
Page xxx
... command of his passions , his deep sagacity , his fixed intrepidity , his tenderness of heart , his manly piety , and his high enthusiasm in the love of his country are all displayed in the superlative degree . Let him who objects the ...
... command of his passions , his deep sagacity , his fixed intrepidity , his tenderness of heart , his manly piety , and his high enthusiasm in the love of his country are all displayed in the superlative degree . Let him who objects the ...
Page lxi
... commands us to do to our neighbour as we would wish our neighbour to do to us . But , if it be maintained that he who plans a discovery ought to foresee the miseries which the vicious will engraft upon his enter- prise , let the ...
... commands us to do to our neighbour as we would wish our neighbour to do to us . But , if it be maintained that he who plans a discovery ought to foresee the miseries which the vicious will engraft upon his enter- prise , let the ...
Page lxix
... command , could have led his crew through the tempest which he surmounted ere he doubled the Cape of Good Hope . Columbus , with his crew , must have re- turned . The expedients which he used to soothe them , would , under his authority ...
... command , could have led his crew through the tempest which he surmounted ere he doubled the Cape of Good Hope . Columbus , with his crew , must have re- turned . The expedients which he used to soothe them , would , under his authority ...
Page lxxvii
... command of the fleet in his absence . The revenue of the zamorim arose chiefly from the traffic of the Moors ; the various colonies of these people were combined in one interest , and the jealousy and consternation which his arrival in ...
... command of the fleet in his absence . The revenue of the zamorim arose chiefly from the traffic of the Moors ; the various colonies of these people were combined in one interest , and the jealousy and consternation which his arrival in ...
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