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a-head Alphonso amongst ancient armada arms Bacchus beauteous Behold boats brave breast bright Camoens CANTO Captain Castille Castillian cavalier Ceuta coast colours command conquer cruel dame death deeds desired divine doth dread earth enemies evil eyes fame fate father favour fear fierce flame fleet flying force furious Gama gave Gentoo glorious glory Goddess hand heart heaven holy honour human illustrious inclined India island isle King King of Morocco King of Portugal kingdom labours lance land light Lisbon lofty Luis de Camoens Lusian Lusitanian LXXXII Magriço Moor Moorish mountains navigate Neptune Nereus never noble Nymphs o'er Ormuz Portugal Portuguese proud renowned rich river sails Samorim Saracen Scythian seen seest sent shew shining ships shore Spain strong sweet sword Tagus Tethys thee thou shalt unto valour vessels victory Viriatus warlike waters waves whence wild winds
Populaire passages
Pagina xx - Portugal into the most abject vaassalage 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 exit.
Pagina xix - The king, says the French translator, was so pleased with his merit, that he gave the author a pension of four thousand reals, on condition that he should reside at court. But this salary...
Pagina xvii - Constantino de Braganza was now viceroy of India, and Camoens, desirous to return to Goa, resigned his charge. In a ship, freighted by himself, he set sail, but was shipwrecked in the gulf near the mouth of die river Mecan, in Cochin-China.
Pagina xviii - He was set at liberty ; and again he assumed the profession of arms, and received the allowance of a gentleman volunteer, a character at this time common in Portuguese India. Soon after, Pedro Barreto, appointed Governor of the fort at Sofala, by high promises allured the poet to attend him thither. The Governor of a distant fort, in a barbarous country, shares in some measure the fate of an exile.
Pagina xvii - All he had acquired was lost in the waves: his poems, which he held in one hand, while he swam with the other, were all he found himself possessed of when he stood friendless on the unknown shore.
Pagina xviii - Camoens, says Faria, and the honour of Barreto were sold together. After an absence of sixteen years, Camoens, in 1569, returned to Lisbon, unhappy even in his arrival, for the pestilence then raged in that city, and prevented his publishing for three years.
Pagina xx - By some it it said he died in an alms-house. It appears, however, that he had not even the certainty of subsistence which these houses provide. He had a black servant, who had grown old with him, and who had long experienced his master's humanity.
Pagina xix - Henry, befides, was one of thofe ftatefmen who can perceive no benefit refulting to the public from elegant literature. But it ought alfo to be added in completion of his character, that under the narrow views and weak hands of this Henry, the kingdom of Portugal fell into utter ruin ; and on his death, which clofed a {hort inglorious reign, the crown of Lifbon, after a faint ftruggle, was annexed to that of Madrid.
Pagina 308 - Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock, A whole day's journey high, but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the fiend Saw, undelighted, all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange.
Pagina 290 - Her monument is still extant, where her statue is adorned with the diadem and the royal robe. This, with the legitimation of her children, and the care he took of all who had been in her service, consoled...