The Lusiad, Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem, Translated from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns, with a Life of the PoetGeorge Bell, 1889 - 358 pages This 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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... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. vainly supplicating fourpence to purchase a little coals- I have them not ... POETS OF HIS TIME . HE LIVED POOR AND MISERABLE , AND HE DIED SO . MDLXXIX . " " The translator of the Lusiad was ...
... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. vainly supplicating fourpence to purchase a little coals- I have them not ... POETS OF HIS TIME . HE LIVED POOR AND MISERABLE , AND HE DIED SO . MDLXXIX . " " The translator of the Lusiad was ...
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... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. xertion , and had sufficient worldly prudence to look out for a subject ... poetic versions of the Lusiad , Mr. Musgrave says , of Fanshaw's version , that " its . anguage is antiquated , and in ...
... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. xertion , and had sufficient worldly prudence to look out for a subject ... poetic versions of the Lusiad , Mr. Musgrave says , of Fanshaw's version , that " its . anguage is antiquated , and in ...
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... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. man of genius a man whom we admire and respe whose memory is without a spot , and whose name live among the English poets . " ( Quarterly Review , ] p . 29. ) It only remains for me to say ...
... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. man of genius a man whom we admire and respe whose memory is without a spot , and whose name live among the English poets . " ( Quarterly Review , ] p . 29. ) It only remains for me to say ...
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... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. miserably neglected by the weak king Henry , was earnestly en- quired after by Philip of Spain when he assumed the crown of Lisbon . When Philip heard that Camoëns was dead , both ais words and ...
... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. miserably neglected by the weak king Henry , was earnestly en- quired after by Philip of Spain when he assumed the crown of Lisbon . When Philip heard that Camoëns was dead , both ais words and ...
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... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. DISSERTATION ON THE LUSIAD , AND ON EPIC POETRY , BY THE TRANSLATOR . VHEN Voltaire was in England , previous to his publication -f his Henriade , he published in English an essay on the epic ...
... Poet Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle. DISSERTATION ON THE LUSIAD , AND ON EPIC POETRY , BY THE TRANSLATOR . VHEN Voltaire was in England , previous to his publication -f his Henriade , he published in English an essay on the epic ...
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