The Quarterly Review, Volume 28William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1823 |
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... Island of the Blessed . This reminds us of a map of the Land of Tender , so called in the translation of Clelia , ( ' an excellent new romance ' one hundred and fifty years ago , ) written by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery ...
... Island of the Blessed . This reminds us of a map of the Land of Tender , so called in the translation of Clelia , ( ' an excellent new romance ' one hundred and fifty years ago , ) written by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery ...
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... island , where , as in a Goshen of their own , they might be safe . They cruised in search of Paradise in a wrong latitude ; and being bad sailors and soon sick of the dangers of the sea , were glad to land upon a small island near ...
... island , where , as in a Goshen of their own , they might be safe . They cruised in search of Paradise in a wrong latitude ; and being bad sailors and soon sick of the dangers of the sea , were glad to land upon a small island near ...
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... island was called the Devil's own , he marched the venemous creatures of all kinds , by which it was overrun , to a promontory , and made them cast themselves into the sea - upon which Joceline exclaims , as well he might , O miraculum ...
... island was called the Devil's own , he marched the venemous creatures of all kinds , by which it was overrun , to a promontory , and made them cast themselves into the sea - upon which Joceline exclaims , as well he might , O miraculum ...
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... islands presented one continued succession of villages amidst fields of grain , interspersed with stately palm trees , acacias and sycamores , larger and taller than those of Egypt ; and the fine broad river swollen out in many places ...
... islands presented one continued succession of villages amidst fields of grain , interspersed with stately palm trees , acacias and sycamores , larger and taller than those of Egypt ; and the fine broad river swollen out in many places ...
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... islands , as well with each other as with the shores of the main land . This is done either by swimming their horses and cattle , or by floating on bundles of reeds , straw , or pieces of wood , buoyed up with gourds , in the most ...
... islands , as well with each other as with the shores of the main land . This is done either by swimming their horses and cattle , or by floating on bundles of reeds , straw , or pieces of wood , buoyed up with gourds , in the most ...
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