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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... monarch was soon frustrated by the clergy , at the head of whom was Henry , afterwards king . Buchanan was committed to prison , because it was alleged that he had eaten flesh in Lent , and because in his early youth , at St. Andrew's n ...
... monarch was soon frustrated by the clergy , at the head of whom was Henry , afterwards king . Buchanan was committed to prison , because it was alleged that he had eaten flesh in Lent , and because in his early youth , at St. Andrew's n ...
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... monarch drew the adventurous youth of every Christian power to his standards , which eventually resulted in the crusades , the beginning of which , in propriety , should be dated from his reign . Few indeed are the historians of this ...
... monarch drew the adventurous youth of every Christian power to his standards , which eventually resulted in the crusades , the beginning of which , in propriety , should be dated from his reign . Few indeed are the historians of this ...
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... monarch . After six years spent in further victories , he called an assembly of the prelates , nobility , and ... monarchs . Engaged in almost continual wars with the Moors , this spirit rose higher and higher ; and the desire to ...
... monarch . After six years spent in further victories , he called an assembly of the prelates , nobility , and ... monarchs . Engaged in almost continual wars with the Moors , this spirit rose higher and higher ; and the desire to ...
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... monarch of his age . After a reign of military splendour , he left his throne to his son Pedro , surnamed the Just . Ideas of equity and literature were now diffused by this great prince , † who was himself a polite scholar , and a most ...
... monarch of his age . After a reign of military splendour , he left his throne to his son Pedro , surnamed the Just . Ideas of equity and literature were now diffused by this great prince , † who was himself a polite scholar , and a most ...
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... monarch is strongly marked in the history of Portuguese Asia . Avarice was his ruling passion ; he was haughty or mean , bold or timorous , as his interest rose or fell in the balance of his judgment ; wavering and irresolute whenever ...
... monarch is strongly marked in the history of Portuguese Asia . Avarice was his ruling passion ; he was haughty or mean , bold or timorous , as his interest rose or fell in the balance of his judgment ; wavering and irresolute whenever ...
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