The Lusiad, Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic PoemJackson and Lister, 1776 - 484 Seiten |
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Seite cxx - be, and fhew them what religious, what glorious and magnificent ufe might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things. .From hence, and not till now, will be the right feafon of forming them to be able writers and
Seite 313 - To fpeed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and forrow ; To have thy
Seite 372 - will attend to the wants, and remove the grievances of your people, you will find them obedient fubjefts ; if not —— The king, ftarting with rage, interrupted him, If not, what If not, refumed the nobleman, in a firm tone, they will look for another and a better king. Alonzo, in the higheft tranfport of paffion,
Seite cxx - in every excellent matter . . . whether they be to fpeak in parliament or council, honour and attention would be waiting on their lips. There would then alfo appear in pulpits other vifages, other geflures, and
Seite 372 - out of the room. In a little while however he returned, calm and reconciled ; I perceive, faid he, the truth of what you fay. He who will not execute the duties of a king, cannot long have good fubjefts. Remember, from this day, you have nothing more to do with Alonzo the fportfman, but with
Seite 133 - die on every gale,. The lions roaring, and the tygers yell, There with mine infant race, confign'd to dwell. There let me try that piety to- find, In vain by Me implored from human kind:. There in fome dreary cavern's rocky womb,, Amid the horrors of fepulchral gloom, For him whofe love I mourn, my love
Seite 203 - the earth, and cried with a loud -voice, as 'when a lion roareth and he lifted up his
Seite cxvi - &c." I am ending the courfe of my life, the world will witnefs how I have loved my country. I have returned, not only to die in her bofom, but to die with her." In another letter, written a little before his death, he thus, yet with dignity, complains, " Who has feen on fo fmall a theatre as my poor bed,
Seite cxxxix - lovely than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O too like In fad event, when to th
Seite xxxiv - Mathematical learning, fays he, was little valued or cultivated. The true fyftem 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 fenfible horizon. In this