The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India. An Epic Poem |
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Æneid Afric Alonzo ancient arms Bacchus bands battle battle of Ourique behold bends Beneath blaze blood boast bold bosom brave breast burning Camoëns Castera Castilian Ceuta confess'd coursers cries death display'd divine dread eastern world ev'ry eyes fable fair fame fate fierce fir'd fire fix'd flame fleet furious gale gallant GAMA GAMA's gen'rous glorious glows goddess gore heaven heroes holy honour horror India Inez inspir'd joyful King of Castile King of Portugal land Lisbon lord Lusian Lusus Melinda monarch Moorish Moors mountains native Nereids Nunio nymphs o'er ocean Pedro poem poet Portugal Portuguese pride prince proud prows purple queen race rage regent reign resounds roar round sacred sail shades shining shore sire skies smiles sons Spain spear spread stern storm sword Tagus tears tempest thee thine thou throne thunders tide toils trembling valiant Viriatus warlike waves wild woes wound youth zamorim
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Page 5 - who rush'd from Caspia's streams, Thus elegantly translated by Pope :— As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn
Page xxxiv - For then from ancient gloom emerg'd The rising world of trade : the genius, then, Of navigation, that in hopeless sloth Had slumber'd on the vast Atlantic deep For idle ages, starting heard at last The Lusitanian prince, who, Heaven-inspir'd, To love of useful glory rous'd mankind, And in unbounded commerce mix'd the world.
Page 129 - To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood. Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urg'd home, Such as we might perceive amus'd them all, And stumbled many
Page 33 - But first he grasps within his awful hand The mark of sovereign power, the magic wand : With this he draws the ghosts from hollow graves, With this he drives them down the Stygian waves, ' With this he seals in sleep the wakeful sight, And eyes, though closed in death, restores to light.
Page 184 - First, dire Chimera's conquest was enjoin'd, ' A mingled monster of no mortal kind ; Behind, a dragon's fiery tail was spread, A goat's rough body bore a lion's head ; Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire, Her gaping throat emits infernal fire." • POPE'S II. vi. So Titan's son.—Briareus.
Page 5 - Around iter throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver
Page 184 - Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears ; And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars ; And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars. Above the rest, as chief of all the band Was Picus plac'd, a buckler in his hand ; His other wav'da long divining wand. Girt in his Gabin gown the hero sate
Page 322 - From whose top The hemisphere of earth in clearest ken Stretch'd out to th' amplest reach of prospect lay. . . . His eye might there command wherever stood City of old or modern fame, the seat Of mightiest empire, from the destin'd walls Of Cambalu
Page 23 - A Lycian race of old, to flight betake, 1 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.—PROVERBS xxx.
Page 99 - Their swords seem dipp'd in fire.—This is as literal as the idiom of the two languages would allow. Dryden has a thought like that of this couplet, but which is not in his original :— " Their bucklers clash ; thick blows descend from high, And flakes of fire from their hard helmets fly.