Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Atlantis

A mythic island which contained the Elysian Fields.

The New Atlantis. An island imagined by Lord Bacon, where was established a philosophical commonwealth bent on the cultivation of the natural sciences. (See Utopia, City of the Sun.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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