 | 1847 - 788 Seiten
...classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian giants, to flaming pictures of an El-Dorado, where the sands sparkled with gems, and golden pebbles...birds' eggs were dragged in nets out of the rivers." And expeditions were actually undertaken in search of a magical Fountain of Health, of golden sepulclires... | |
 | 1847 - 760 Seiten
...tales of Amazons, which seemed to realise the classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Fatagonian giants, to flaming pictures of an El Dorado, where...rivers. Yet that the adventurers were no impostors, but too easy dupes of Among the numerous bold adventures and enterprises that shed such a fierce and lurid... | |
 | 1847 - 758 Seiten
...classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian giants, to flaming pictures of an El Dorada, where the sands sparkled with gems, and golden pebbles...rivers. Yet that the adventurers were no impostors, but too easy dupes of their own credulous fancies, is shewn by the extravagant character of their enterprises... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 Seiten
...Patagonian giants, to flaming picVOL. II. AA tares of an El Dorado, where the sands sparkled with gems, aid golden pebbles as large as birds' eggs were dragged...the adventurers were no impostors, but dupes, too asy dopes of their own credulous fancies, is shown by the extrava racter of their enterprizes : by... | |
 | 1847 - 640 Seiten
...classic legend of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian giants, to flaming pictures of an EL-Doraao, where the sands sparkled with gems, and golden pebbles...birds' eggs were dragged in nets out of the rivers. " And expeditions were actually undertaken in search of a magical fountain of health, of golden sepulchres... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 Seiten
...an age of chivalry. They listened with attentive ears to tales of Amazons, which seemed to realise the classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian...dupes, of their own credulous fancies, is shown by tho extravagant character of their enterprises : by expeditions in search of the magical Fountain of... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 Seiten
...giants, to flaming pictures of an El Dorado, where the sands sparkled with gems, and golden pebblea as large as birds' eggs were dragged in nets out of...enterprises : by expeditions in search of the magical Fountain of Health, of the golden Temple of Doboyba, of the golden sepulchres of Yenu — for gold... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 Seiten
...an age of chivalry. They listened with attentive ears to tales of Amazons, which seemed to realise the classic legends of antiquity, to stories of Patagonian...enterprises : by expeditions in search of the magical Fountain of Health, of the golden Temple of Doboyba, of the golden sepulchres of Yenu — for gold... | |
 | Peter F. Stout - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...particular, he says, was so stripped of its inhabit-. ants, that the city was left almost to the women. " The El Dorado," where the sands sparkled with gems, and golden pebbles as large as birds'-eggs were said to be dragged out of the streams in nets, the emerald mines of Peru, where the... | |
 | 1864 - 444 Seiten
...full as extraordinary as the wildest chimeras which Ariosto ever sang, or Cervantes satirized. . . . "The eagerness to explore the wonderful secrets of...that the adventurers were no impostors, but dupes, easy dupes of their own credulous fancies, is shown by the extravagant character of their enterprises;... | |
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... romance that stimulated still higher the sensitive fancies of his countrymen and nourished the chimerical sentiments of an age of chivalry. They listened with attentive ears to tales of Amazons which seemed to realize the classic legends of antiquity,... 
