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A Portuguese poet and scholar; born at St. Michael, Azores, Feb. 24, 1843. On quitting the university of Coimbra, he took up the study of Portuguese literature, and made a great collection of popular romances, songs, and fairy tales, publishing the results in a series of volumes, Also in 20 volumes he published a pretty complete history of the national literature (1870-76). Besides these works on the history of Portuguese letters, he issued in 1877 a "General Outline of the Positive Philosophy"; in 1878 "Positive Solutions of Portuguese Politics"; and in 1884 a "System of Sociology". His poetical writings comprise: "Green Leaves", written in boyhood; "The Vision of Time" (1864), a series of pictures of the process of world-evolution, in the manner of Victor Hugo: and "Undine of the Lake"; "Torrents" and "World Pictures".