 | Gaile McGregor - 1988 - 372 páginas
...first entered the coastal waters of North Carolina "we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Later, after landing, they "found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, voide of all guile... | |
 | Hans Huth - 1990 - 368 páginas
...which is now the state of North Carolina: "we smelt so sweet, and so strong a smell as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant."7 In 1626 George Percy, the youngest... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...the praises of Virginia. He duly evoked a land whose coastal waters "smelt so sweetly . . . as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Landing, they find the soil "the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world."... | |
 | Jackson Lears - 1995 - 416 páginas
...plenitude. "The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers; by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant." Imagine the state the man must have... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 páginas
...in 1584, reported that he "found shole water where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers." The place where he and his men first came ashore was so full of grapes,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 páginas
...wrote: "the second of July we found shoal water, where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." Winthrop, using the same simile in describing the approach to the New England coast on June 7, 1630,... | |
 | Carolyn Perry, Mary Weaks-Baxter - 2002 - 724 páginas
...Barlowe wrote that his ship was "allured" to Virginia's shores by "so strong a smell, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers." This image of the land as a fertile (and oftentimes erotic) female was perpetuated in John Rolfe's... | |
 | Amir R. Alexander - 2002 - 318 páginas
...report, "We found shole water, which smelt so sweetely, and was so strong a smell, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant." Two days later, that appeared... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - 2006 - 236 páginas
...approached the shore, it 'found shoal water, which smelt so sweetly, and was so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers' (276). After setting out from the hortus conclusus [enclosed garden] of... | |
 | 1900 - 1408 páginas
..."The 2nd day of July we found shoal water, where we smelled so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers by which we were assured the land could not be far distant." They passed through what is now known... | |
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The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers... 
