In the canon
The New Atalantis
Delarivier Manley
- Form
- Form Satire
- Year
- Year 1709
- Pages
- Pages 300
Justice comes back to earth, and what she finds is England. Astrea descends to the island of Atalantis meaning to see the world before she instructs a young prince in virtue, and instead spends her visit being told, by a gossip named Lady Intelligence, exactly how the great men of the age came by their fortunes and their women.
How generous is the Earth? How charming her Fruits ? How flowing the Waters ? How cooling, how limpid the Streams?
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