Portugal Old and NewG. P. Putnam's sons, 1880 - 386 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alemtejo Almoravides Alonso ancient bacalhau Bastuli Braga Castile century certainly Cetobriga chiefly Christian chroniclers Citania claret climate colour common crop cultivation district drink early eclogues emphyteusis emphyteutic England English Europe farm farmer favour fermentation field frontier Galician Gelmires German grape ground guese Guimaraens hand hill Inez interest island kind King Affonso Henriquez King of Leon kingdom labour land Leonese less Lisbon Madeira maize manure Médoc Minho Miranda modern Moorish Moslem mountains nation natural never night northern Oporto peasant Peninsula perhaps plain plants plough poet poetry port wine Portugal Portuguese Portuguese poetry possessed prince probably province race red wine river Roman ruins Santarem Saracens Senhor Setubal sherry soil southern Spain Spanish spirit stone straw summer table d'hôte Tagus Tareja taste tenure thing tion traveller trees Troia Urraca vine vineyards whole wine merchants
Passagens conhecidas
Página 224 - Firm and erect the Caledonian stood, Old was his mutton, and his claret good. " Let him drink port ! " the English statesman cried : He drank the poison, and his spirit died.
Página 372 - Quem quer bem nunca offende Nem uma .... quando mais tres. The women assume a certain freedom in Portugal — as, for the matter of that, they often do elsewhere — and it is well for their lovers if they can always believe what is told them for their own good. ' I have,' says one very frank maiden, ' five lovers — three for the morning, two for the afternoon ; to all of these I tell falsehoods, to you alone I speak the truth : ' — Eu tenho cinco namoros, Tres de manha, dois de tarde : A todos...
Página 371 - I have noticed that among the Portuguese peasant class women hold a very independent position. They work very hard, they are active and cheerful, very helpful in any trouble, very genial and sympathetic, and yet full of quick answers and mother wit. They know well their value in the economy of life, and, without any clamour for impossible rights, take their full share of all that is attainable in that way. Their suitors in love are very humble and persevering, but the women know well what is due...
Página 370 - Here is the lament of a girl-singer whose lover is a sailor. It might be a translation from Persian or Arabic. ' Evil be,' she sings, ' to the man who first invented sea-going in ships, for he is the cause that my eyes are rivers of tears : ' — Mal haja qnem inventou No mar andarem navios, Que esse foi o causador Dos meus olhos serem rios.
Página 83 - Passando hum dia vae, passa outro dia Incertos todos mais que ao vento as naves. Eu vi já por aqui sombras e flores, Vi agoas e" vi fontes, vi verdura, As aves vi cantar todas d'amores.
Página 84 - Aquele esprito, já tam bem pagado Como ele merecia, claro e puro, Deixou de boa vontade o vale escuro, De tudo o que ca viu como anojado. Aquele...
Página 83 - O sol he grande; caem com a calma as aves Do tempo , em tal sazao que soe ser fria , Esta agoa que d'alto cae , acordarme hia Do sono nao, mas de cuidados graves. O cousas todas vãs, todas mndaveis!
Página 365 - ... does he linger in the wine-shop; but, if it be a holiday or a Sunday, and in a rural district, he puts on a clean shirt, with a large gold or silver stud as a neck-fastening, and his newest hat, varying in shape according to locality, but always of black felt, and of the kind which we see in pictures of Spanish life. He throws over his shoulders a black cloth cloak, with a real gold or silver clasp. He takes his favourite ox-goad in his hand, as tall as himself, straight as an arrow, well rounded...
Página 373 - Sem Deus, sem amor, sem ti. It is in the centre and north of the country that I have chiefly heard this extempore singing and seen peasants dancing and singing at their desgarradas d viola — their village balls and concerts.
Página 355 - The water is level through its whole extent, although, like the earth, it has the form of a globe. Mankind in those ages were much more ignorant than now. Hercules would blush at this day for having fixed his columns. Vessels will soon pass far beyond them. They may soon reach...