Ercilla

How to use Ercilla in a sentence

• Ercilla represents him as very ardent in battle, sometimes fighting himself, sometimes urging on his soldiers, always in movement.

  South America | W. H. Koebel

• The poet Ercilla has made the name of the Araucanians so famous that it were improper now to change the appellation.

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5 | Robert Kerr

• Ercilla has devoted the twenty-fourth canto of the Araucana to the splendid episode of the battle of Lepanto.

  History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain | William H. Prescott

• But in Portugal there had arisen a poet, in comparison of whose glory that of Ercilla is as nothing.

  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 | Henry Hallam

• It is denied by these writers, that Ercilla excelled all his contemporaries in heroic song.

  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 | Henry Hallam