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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... rounded with the best agriculture of these ages , † a certain proof of the dependence of agriculture upon the extent of commerce . The Hanse Towns were liable , however , to be buried in the victories of a tyrant , and the trade with ...
... rounded with the best agriculture of these ages , † a certain proof of the dependence of agriculture upon the extent of commerce . The Hanse Towns were liable , however , to be buried in the victories of a tyrant , and the trade with ...
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... round the stormy Cape , By bold ambition led . " THOMSON . During any interval of the storm , the sailors , wearied out with fatigue , and abandoned to despair , surrounded Gama , and implored him not to suffer himself , and those ...
... round the stormy Cape , By bold ambition led . " THOMSON . During any interval of the storm , the sailors , wearied out with fatigue , and abandoned to despair , surrounded Gama , and implored him not to suffer himself , and those ...
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... rounded and taken ; but the party who had secured him , quarrelling among themselves whose prisoner he was , a Moorish officer rode up and struck the king a blow over the right eye , which brought him to the ground ; when , despairing ...
... rounded and taken ; but the party who had secured him , quarrelling among themselves whose prisoner he was , a Moorish officer rode up and struck the king a blow over the right eye , which brought him to the ground ; when , despairing ...
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... round the nodding prows . 1 Thy grandsires . - John III . King of Portugal , celebrated for a long and peaceful reign ; and the Emperor Charles V. , who was engaged in almost continual wars . 2 Some critics have condemned Virgil for ...
... round the nodding prows . 1 Thy grandsires . - John III . King of Portugal , celebrated for a long and peaceful reign ; and the Emperor Charles V. , who was engaged in almost continual wars . 2 Some critics have condemned Virgil for ...
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... round his brows , outshone the diamond's blaze : His breath such gales of vital fragrance shed , As might , with sudden life , inspire the dead : Supreme Control thron'd in his awful eyes Appear'd , and mark'd the monarch of the skies ...
... round his brows , outshone the diamond's blaze : His breath such gales of vital fragrance shed , As might , with sudden life , inspire the dead : Supreme Control thron'd in his awful eyes Appear'd , and mark'd the monarch of the skies ...
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