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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... toils of a martial life were sweetene by the recollection of her for whose sake they wer endured . His heroic conduct at length procured his recal to court , " but to find , alas , that his mistress was no more . Disappointed in his ...
... toils of a martial life were sweetene by the recollection of her for whose sake they wer endured . His heroic conduct at length procured his recal to court , " but to find , alas , that his mistress was no more . Disappointed in his ...
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... toils , his first and last purpose he never ompleted . It was reserved for Magalhaens to discover the westward route o the Eastern world . Gomara and other Spanish writers relate , that while Columbus lived in Madeira , a pilot , the ...
... toils , his first and last purpose he never ompleted . It was reserved for Magalhaens to discover the westward route o the Eastern world . Gomara and other Spanish writers relate , that while Columbus lived in Madeira , a pilot , the ...
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... toils and dangers , was not there to share the joy . As soon as he had waited on the king , he shut himself up in a lonely house near the seaside at Belem , from whence it was some time ere he was drawn to mingle in public life . During ...
... toils and dangers , was not there to share the joy . As soon as he had waited on the king , he shut himself up in a lonely house near the seaside at Belem , from whence it was some time ere he was drawn to mingle in public life . During ...
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... toils at last , Vent'rous I sing , on soaring pinions borne , And all my country's wars the song adorn ; What kings , what heroes of my native land Thunder'd on Asia's and on Afric's strand : Illustrious shades , who levell❜d in the ...
... toils at last , Vent'rous I sing , on soaring pinions borne , And all my country's wars the song adorn ; What kings , what heroes of my native land Thunder'd on Asia's and on Afric's strand : Illustrious shades , who levell❜d in the ...
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... toils , his dangers , and his wars : 1 i.e. helmet . 2 and the light turn'd pale . - The thought in the original has something in it wildly great , though it is not expressed in the happiest manner of Camoëns- O ceo tremeo , e Apollo ...
... toils , his dangers , and his wars : 1 i.e. helmet . 2 and the light turn'd pale . - The thought in the original has something in it wildly great , though it is not expressed in the happiest manner of Camoëns- O ceo tremeo , e Apollo ...
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