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 xliv
... divine add what may be reasonably expected from such opportunity of the increase of religion . A factory of merchants , indeed , has seldom been found to be a school of piety ; yet , when the general manners of a people become ...
... divine add what may be reasonably expected from such opportunity of the increase of religion . A factory of merchants , indeed , has seldom been found to be a school of piety ; yet , when the general manners of a people become ...
Page liii
... divine , the rapidity of their conquests far exceeded those of the Goths and Vandals . The majority of the inhabitants of every country they subdued embraced their religion and imbibed their principles ; thus , the professors of Mohamme ...
... divine , the rapidity of their conquests far exceeded those of the Goths and Vandals . The majority of the inhabitants of every country they subdued embraced their religion and imbibed their principles ; thus , the professors of Mohamme ...
Page lv
... divine right and arbitrary power of kings , principles which inculcate and demand the un- limited passive obedience of the subject . The founders of the Portuguese monarchy transmitted to their heirs those generous principles of liberty ...
... divine right and arbitrary power of kings , principles which inculcate and demand the un- limited passive obedience of the subject . The founders of the Portuguese monarchy transmitted to their heirs those generous principles of liberty ...
Page lxxiii
... Divine favour , and Gama , holding up his hands to heaven , ascribed his safety to the care of Providence . * Two days , however , elapsed before they could get clear of the rocky bay of Mombas . Having now ventured to hoist their sails ...
... Divine favour , and Gama , holding up his hands to heaven , ascribed his safety to the care of Providence . * Two days , however , elapsed before they could get clear of the rocky bay of Mombas . Having now ventured to hoist their sails ...
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... divine . Her spreading honours thus the one inspir'd , And one the dread to lose his worship fir'd . Their struggling factions shook th ' Olympian state With all the clam'rous tempest of debate . Thus , when the storm with sudden gust ...
... divine . Her spreading honours thus the one inspir'd , And one the dread to lose his worship fir'd . Their struggling factions shook th ' Olympian state With all the clam'rous tempest of debate . Thus , when the storm with sudden gust ...
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admiral Æneid Alonzo ancient arms Bacchus bands behold bend Beneath blaze blood boast bold bosom Brahmins brave breast Calicut Camoëns Cape Castera Castile Castilian Ceuta Christian coast conquest coursers cries death divine dread eastern world epic poetry ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fierce fire fleet gale Gama GAMA's gave gen'rous glorious glows gold heaven Henry heroes holy Homer honour horrid horror human India inspir'd island joyful king King of Portugal land Lisbon lord Lusian Lusus Melinda Mombas monarch Moorish Moors Mozambique native Nereids nymphs o'er ocean Pedro pilot poem poet Portrait Portugal Portuguese pride prince proud purple queen race rage reign resounds round sacred sail shade shining ships shore sire skies smiles Spain spear spread storm sword Tagus tempest thee thine thou throne tide toils Trans translator trembling Vasco Viriatus vols voyage warlike waves wild woes zamorim