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A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. quotations examples
How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule
I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.
1918, Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation