Portuguese Literature to the End of the 18th Century Being a Lecture Delivered
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To avoid prolixity, I propose to select the names of two men as representative of the rest Barros and Mendes Pinto. The title of the Decades of the Portuguese Livy is no less significant than sonorous " The Asia of foao de Barros, concerning the deeds which the Portuguese achieved in the discovery and conquest of the seas and lands of the Orient " and this heading is no more a piece of bombast than the lines which Buchanan dedicated to King John III. Proclaiming that on his Empire the sun never... set : Inque tuis Phoebus regnis, oriensque cadensque, Vix longum fesso conderet axe diem; Et quaecumque vago se circumvolvit Olympo, Affulget ratibus flamma ministra tuis. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 29 Barros founded himself on the records of the India House and drew from his own invaluable collection of Oriental MSS. , and his intellectual power and eloquence are as undeniable as his faithful research, but his omission to record the dark side of Portuguese activity in the East must be considered a mistake, though it was honestly made and confessed.
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