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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... humanity . This grateful dependant , a native of Java , who , according to some writers , saved his master's life in the unhappy shipwreck where he lost his effects , begged in the streets of Lisbon for the only man in Portugal on whom ...
... humanity . This grateful dependant , a native of Java , who , according to some writers , saved his master's life in the unhappy shipwreck where he lost his effects , begged in the streets of Lisbon for the only man in Portugal on whom ...
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... 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 all the flowers which have ever adorned the bowers of love . And ...
... 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 all the flowers which have ever adorned the bowers of love . And ...
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... humanity , is at least the certain attendant on everything human . Though some part of the traffic with many countries resemble Solomon's importation of apes and peacocks ; though the superfluities of life , the baubles of the opulent ...
... humanity , is at least the certain attendant on everything human . Though some part of the traffic with many countries resemble Solomon's importation of apes and peacocks ; though the superfluities of life , the baubles of the opulent ...
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... human breast to the most uncomfortable situations . If the intercourse of mankind in some instances be introductive of vice , the want of it as certainly excludes the exertion of the noblest virtues ; and , if the seeds of virtue are ...
... human breast to the most uncomfortable situations . If the intercourse of mankind in some instances be introductive of vice , the want of it as certainly excludes the exertion of the noblest virtues ; and , if the seeds of virtue are ...
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... human nature to preserve the children of the next in the same generous estrangement from the selfish passions - from those passions which are the parents of the acts of injustice . When his wants are easily supplied , the manners of the ...
... human nature to preserve the children of the next in the same generous estrangement from the selfish passions - from those passions which are the parents of the acts of injustice . When his wants are easily supplied , the manners of the ...
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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