Editor's Preface : p. vii EDITOR'S PREFACE. IN undertaking, at the publishers' request, the function of editor of Mickle's Lusiad, I have compared the translation with the original, and, in some places, where another translation seemed preferable to, or more literal than, Mickle's, I have, in addition, given th...
Dissertation On The Fiction Of The Island Of Venus : p. 292 DISSERTATION ON THE FICTION OF THE ISLAND OF VENUS. FROM the earliest ages, and in the most distant nations, palaces, forests and gardens, have been the favourite themes of poets. And though, as in Homer's island of Rhadamanthus, the description is sometimes only cursory; at other times...
Book V : p. 133 BOOK V. THE ARGUMENT. Departure of the expedition under the command of VASCO DE GAMA (A.D. 1497). Mountains of Portugal, Cintra, Morocco. Madeira; the burning shores of the Desert of Zanhagan; passage of the Tropic; cold waters of the dark river Senegal. San Jago; pass the rocky coasts...
Book Iv : p. 102 BOOK IV. THE ARGUMENT. STATE OF PORTUGAL ON THE DEATH OF DOM FERNANDO. Beatrice, daughter of Fernando, not acknowledged by the Portuguese, the throne is occupied by Don John, a natural brother of Fernando. A Spanish prince having married Beatrice, the Spaniards invade Portugal, which they...
Mickle's Sketch Of The History Of The Discovery : MICKLE'S SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. No lesson can be of greater national importance than the history of the rise and the fall of a commercial empire. The view of what advantages were acquired, and of what might have been still added; the means by which such empire might have...
Mickle's Introduction To The Lusiad : MICKLE'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LUSIAD. IF a concatenation of events centred in one great action--events which gave birth to the present commercial system of the world--if these be of the first importance in the civil history of mankind, then the Lusiad, of all other poems, challenges the attenti...
The Life Of Camoens : p. xiv THE LIFE OF CAMONS, BY WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE. WHEN the glory of the arms of Portugal had reached its meridian splendour, Nature, as if in pity of the literary rudeness of that nation, produced a great poet to record the numberless actions of high spirit performed by his countrymen. Except...
Dissertation On The Lusiad, And On Epic Poetry : p. xxv DISSERTATION ON THE LUSIAD, AND ON EPIC POETRY, BY THE TRANSLATOR. WHEN Voltaire was in England, previous to his publication of his Henriade, he published in English an essay on the epic poetry of the European nations. In this he both highly praised, and severely attacked, the Lusiad...
Untitled : Columbus was a failure. He utterly failed to accomplish what NASA would call his 'mission profile,' that is, to find a practical trade route to India. Of course, he did get the biggest consolation prize in history... Vasco da Gama, who sailed from Portugal in 1498, however, succeeded in achieving...
Book X : p. 298 BOOK X. THE ARGUMENT. In the opening of this, the last canto, the poet resumes the allegory of the Isle of Joy, or of Venus: the fair nymphs conduct their lovers to their radiant palaces, where delicious wines sparkle in every cup. Before the poet describes the song of a prophetic siren...
Book Ix : p. 252 BOOK IX. THE ARGUMENT. The liberation of Gama's factors is effected by a great victory over the Moorish fleet, and by the bombardment of Calicut. Gama returns in consequence to his ships, and weighs anchor to return to Europe with the news of his great discoveries. Camons then introduces...
Title Page And Front Matter : p. 3 THE LUSIAD; OR, THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA. AN EPIC POEM. TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF LUIS DE CAMONS. WITH A LIFE OF THE POET. BY WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE. FIFTH EDITION, REVISED, BY E. RICHMOND HODGES, M.C.P., HON. LIBRARIAN TO THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHOLOGY, "Editor of "Cary's Ancient...
Book Ii : p. 30 BOOK II. THE ARGUMENT. Arrival of the expedition at Mombas. Bacchus plots their destruction by new artifices. They are deceived into the belief that the natives are, like themselves, Christians: Bacchus assumes the character of a priest, and worships the god of the Christians...
Book I : p. 1 THE LUSIAD. 1 BOOK I. ARGUMENT. Statement of the subject. Invocation to the muses of the Tagus. Herald calls an assembly of the gods. Jupiter foretells the future conquests of the Portuguese. Bacchus, apprehensive that the Portuguese may eclipse the glory acquired by himself in the conquest...
Book Iii : p. 60 BOOK III. THE ARGUMENT. Gama, in reply to the King of Melinda, describes the various countries of Europe; narrates the rise of the Portuguese nation. History of Portugal. Battle of Guimaraens. Egas offers himself with his wife and family for the honour of his country. Alonzo pardons him...
Book Vi : p. 164 BOOK VI. THE ARGUMENT. Gama's long recital being concluded, the poet resumes the thread of his story in his own person. The Portuguese admiral enters into an alliance with the King of Melinda, assures him that the vessels of his nation will always in future anchor on his shores. Gam...
Book Viii : p. 222 BOOK VIII. THE ARGUMENT. Description of the pictures, given by Paulus. The heroes of Portugal, from Lusus, one of the companions of Bacchus (who gave his name to Portugal), and Ulysses, the founder of Lisbon, down to Don Pedro and Don Henrique (Henry), the conquerors of Ceuta, are all...
Book Vii : p. 193 BOOK VII. THE ARGUMENT. The poet, having expatiated on the glorious achievements of the Portuguese, describes the Germans, English, French, and Italians, reproaching them for their profane wars and luxury, while they ought to have been employed in opposing the enemies of the Christian faith...
