Portugal Illustrated: In a Series of LettersTreuttel, Würtz, and Richter, 1828 - 500 pages |
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Alemtejo Algarva Alphonso altar appearance arch Aveiro bank beautiful Beira Belem Braga Brasil British building Cabo da Roca castle chapel character church Cintra coast Coimbra command commerce considerable convent corn Cortes crown cultivated distance Douro elevated England English erected established Estalagem Estremadura exported extent favour former French Galicia gardens Guadiana height hill history of Portugal houses inhabitants King Lamego leagues Leiria Lisbon Lusiad Lusitania Minho modinha moidore monastery Mondego monks Monte Monte Mor Moors mountains mules nation native neighbourhood numerous observed palace passed persons Pombal Ponte de Lima Port Porto Portugal Portuguese possession present principal province quintas Regoa reign reis remarkable river road rocks round royal seen Senhor Serra shore side situated sovereign Spain Spanish steep streets summit surrounded Tagus tion town traveller trees troops Valença valley vessels Villa Nova vine walls whole wine
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Page 192 - Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his Gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home. And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare, And estimate the blessings which they share, Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find An equal portion dealt to all mankind, As different good, by Art or Nature given, To different nations makes their blessings even.
Page 209 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 154 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect. unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Page 365 - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 302 - Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower.
Page 429 - With such mad seas the daring Gama fought, For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant, labouring round the stormy Cape ; By bold ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold.
Page 283 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And ev'n those ills that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Page 374 - Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers to-day; yet a few years, and the blast of the desart comes; it howls in thy empty court, and whistles round thy half-worn shield.
Page 209 - The rabble's rage, and tyrant's angry steel; Thou transitory flower, alike undone By proud contempt, or...
Page 120 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.