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 ix
... sent to the university of Coimbra - then at the height of its fame , " and maintained there by the provident care of his surviving parent . " 66 ' Love , " says Lord Strangford , " is very nearly allied to devotion , and it was in the ...
... sent to the university of Coimbra - then at the height of its fame , " and maintained there by the provident care of his surviving parent . " 66 ' Love , " says Lord Strangford , " is very nearly allied to devotion , and it was in the ...
Page xii
... sent into the counting - house of a relation of his mother's , a brewer , where , against his inclination , he remained five years . He subsequently , for family reasons , became the head of the firm , and carried on the business . It ...
... sent into the counting - house of a relation of his mother's , a brewer , where , against his inclination , he remained five years . He subsequently , for family reasons , became the head of the firm , and carried on the business . It ...
Page xxi
... sent a whole apparatus of holy fathers to for a court of inquisitors , to suppress the Jews and reduce the native Chris- tians to the see of Rome . Nor must the treatment experienced by Buchanan at Lisbon be here omitted . John III ...
... sent a whole apparatus of holy fathers to for a court of inquisitors , to suppress the Jews and reduce the native Chris- tians to the see of Rome . Nor must the treatment experienced by Buchanan at Lisbon be here omitted . John III ...
Page lviii
... sent a ship to make discoveries on the Barbary coast . Cape Nam § ( as its name implies ) was then the ne plus ultra of European naviga * The dominion of the Portuguese in the Indian seas cut the sinews of the Egyptian and other ...
... sent a ship to make discoveries on the Barbary coast . Cape Nam § ( as its name implies ) was then the ne plus ultra of European naviga * The dominion of the Portuguese in the Indian seas cut the sinews of the Egyptian and other ...
Page lix
... sent by Henry , however , passed it sixty leagues , and reached Cape Bojador . About a league and a half from Cape St. Vincent ( supposed to be the Promontorium Sacrum of the Romans ) , Prince Henry built his town of Sagrez , the best ...
... sent by Henry , however , passed it sixty leagues , and reached Cape Bojador . About a league and a half from Cape St. Vincent ( supposed to be the Promontorium Sacrum of the Romans ) , Prince Henry built his town of Sagrez , the best ...
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