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The Lusiad

Note 19 — THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA.

William Julius Mickle translation

Castera was every way unequal to his task. He did not perceive his author's beauties. He either suppresses or lowers the most poetical passages, and substitutes French tinsel and impertinence in their place.

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