The Lusiad Or the Discovery of India An Epic Poem volume 1
The Lusiad Or the Discovery of India An Epic Poem volume 1
Lus De Cames
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'Tis a pleafant air, but barren foil, and there are very fewinrtan- ces of thofe who have added to their patrimony by any thing they have reaped * Thefe lines, however, are a dull wretched paraphrafe of fome parts ox the Pfalms. cccxii THE LIFE OF CAMOENS. try and the human afFedlions than a Burleigh. In anci- cient Greece, the works of Homer were called the leflbn- or reaped from thence. Poetry and Gaming, which ufually go together, arc alike in this too, that they feldom bring any advantage b...ut tothofe who have nothing elfe to live on. Men of eftates almoft conftantly go away lo- fers ; and 'tis well if they cfcape at a cheaper rate, than their whole eftates, or the grcated part of them. If therefore you would not have your fon the fiddle to every jovial company, without whom the fparks could not relifh their wine, nor know how to fpend an afternoon idly ; if you would not have him wafle his time and eflate to divert others, and contemn the dirty acres left him by hisanceftors, i do not think you will much care he fhould be a poet.
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