 | Luis Vaz de Camoens - 1877 - 498 pages
...employ'd, Degraded now, by poverty abhorr'd, The guest dependent at the lordling's board : Now blest with all the wealth fond hope could crave, Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave For ever lost ; 8 myself escap'd alone, On the wild shore all friendless, hopeless, thrown ; My... | |
 | Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - Bible - 1903 - 352 pages
...when, friendless, ruined, and alone, he landed on the " gentle Mecon's friendly shore." " Now blest with all the wealth fond hope could crave, Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave For ever lost ; myself escaped alone, On the wild shore, all friendless, hopeless, thrown; My... | |
 | George Monteiro - Science - 1996 - 212 pages
...friendless on the unknown shore."48 In Book 7 of The Lusiads Camoes refers to the shipwreck: Now blest with all the wealth fond hope could crave, Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave For ever lost; myself escaped alone, On the wild shore all friendless, hopeless, thrown; My life,... | |
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Now blest with all the wealth fond hope could crave, Soon I beheld that wealth beneath the wave For ever lost ; myself escaped alone, On the wild shore all friendless, hopeless, thrown ; My life, like Judah's heaven-doom'd king of yore, By miracle prolong'd... 
