The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem, Band 1Lackington, Allen, and Company, 1809 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiral Africa allegory Alonzo ancient appear ardour arms Bacchus barbarous beheld bold brave Calicut Camoens Cape Cape Bojador Catual character Christian civil coast Coello Columbus commerce dæmon death discovered discovery discovery of India divine dread eastern world empire Eneid epic poem Epic Poetry esteemed Europe eyes fame Faria fate fire fleet friendship Gama Gama's gave genius greatest happy harbour heaven heroes honour human idea Iliad India island joyful King of Portugal Laish land Lisbon LUIS DE CAMOENS Lusiad Lusitanian Lusus machinery Magalhaens mankind manners Melinda monarch Monzaida Moorish Moors Mozambic nation natives navigation o'er ocean pagan pilot poetical poetry Portuguese Prince Henry prows race racter rage reign religion Roman sail savage sent shew ships shore smiles soon Spain Spaniards spirit spread storm tempest thine thou tide tion toils translation trembling unknown Vasco Venus Viriatus Voltaire voyage warlike waves Zamorim
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Seite cxli - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Seite xxiv - Incessant, labouring round the stormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold. For then from ancient gloom...
Seite cxli - On our first father; half her swelling breast Naked met his, under the flowing gold Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight Both of her beauty, and submissive charms, Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds That shed May flowers...
Seite cxlii - And heavenly quires the hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Seite cxl - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the...
Seite lxvi - ... learning, which only concerned words too, though in another way. The elegance and purity of the Latin tongue was then the highest, and almost the only point of a scholar's ambition. Mathematical learning was little valued or cultivated. The true system of the heavens was not dreamed of. There was no knowledge at all of the real form of the earth ; and in general the ideas of mankind were not extended beyond their sensible horizon. In this state of affairs Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa,...
Seite cxviii - Forf 2 tugal into the most abject vassalage ever experienced by a conquered nation. While the grandees of Portugal were blind to the ruin which impended over them, Camoens beheld it with a pungency of grief which hastened his end.