Fortunate Islands

Pope Clement VI having, in 1344, created Lewis of Spain prince of the Fortunate Islands, meaning the Canaries, then newly discovered, the English ambassador at Rome and his retinue were seized with an alarm, that Lewis had been created king of England; and they immediately hurried home, in order to convey this important intelligence.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743

I'm sick of the Greeks, and the Fortunate Islands are a blooming fraud, and oh, for paradise, give me Pentonville. "

In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

Khálidát), the Eternal, as Ibn Wardi calls the Fortunate Islands, or Canaries, which owe both their modern names to the classics of

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

It is a fresh item of the infinite curse which has come upon this race, and with Molokai in sight the Hesperides vanished, and I ceased to believe that the Fortunate Islands exist here or elsewhere on this weary earth.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients.

Tales of all countries 2004

Life in the Fortunate Islands, as in the Land beyond the North Wind, was characterized as softly primitive: the climate was pleasant, earth gave its fruits spontaneously, the goats, as Horace put it

PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

I bring them to our River Lethe (for its springhead rises in the Fortunate Islands, and that other of hell is but a brook in comparison), from which, as soon as they have drunk down a long forgetfulness, they wash away by degrees the perplexity of their minds, and so wax young again.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

Fortunate Islands, and two souls and two hearts doing the same sort of thing at the same time, with complete and unqualified success, in that sweet rose-garden on the sunny slope to the southward.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

Fortunate Islands, of whose indescribable beauty and untold wealth they had heard many surmises.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

A party were pressing the claims of a solicitor for a consulship; his particular plea that his health would be benefited by residence on these Fortunate Islands.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams