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 xvii
... fleet or camp . He visited Mount Felix , and he adjacent inhospitable regions of Africa , which he so strongly ictures in the Lusiad , and in one of his little pieces , where he ments the absence of his mistress . When he returned to ...
... fleet or camp . He visited Mount Felix , and he adjacent inhospitable regions of Africa , which he so strongly ictures in the Lusiad , and in one of his little pieces , where he ments the absence of his mistress . When he returned to ...
Page xxvi
... fleet finds in its way home , just rising from the sea , for their comfort , and for their reward . Camoëns describes that place , as Tasso some years after depicted his island of Armida . There a supernatural power brings in all the ...
... fleet finds in its way home , just rising from the sea , for their comfort , and for their reward . Camoëns describes that place , as Tasso some years after depicted his island of Armida . There a supernatural power brings in all the ...
Page xxix
... fleet near the Cape of Good Hope , is the grandest fiction in human composition ; the invention his own ! In the Island of Venus , the use of which fiction in an epic poem is also his own , he has given the completest assem- blage of ...
... fleet near the Cape of Good Hope , is the grandest fiction in human composition ; the invention his own ! In the Island of Venus , the use of which fiction in an epic poem is also his own , he has given the completest assem- blage of ...
Page lxv
... fleet to protect his rights . But matters were adjusted by embassies , and that cele- orated treaty was drawn up by which Spain and Portugal divided the western and eastern worlds between them . The eastern half of the world was ...
... fleet to protect his rights . But matters were adjusted by embassies , and that cele- orated treaty was drawn up by which Spain and Portugal divided the western and eastern worlds between them . The eastern half of the world was ...
Page lxvi
... fleet , the shore of Belem * presented one of the most solemn and affecting scenes perhaps recorded in history . The beach was covered with the inhabitants of Lisbon , * Or Bethlehem , so named from the chapel . A procession of priests ...
... fleet , the shore of Belem * presented one of the most solemn and affecting scenes perhaps recorded in history . The beach was covered with the inhabitants of Lisbon , * Or Bethlehem , so named from the chapel . A procession of priests ...
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