“America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.”

— Francis Parkman

Pt. I, Ch. 3
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond t…" by Francis Parkman?

Francis Parkman photo

Francis Parkman 28

American historian 1823–1893

Related quotes

“America was the land where people still believed in heroes.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Context: America was the country in which the dynamic myth of the Renaissance — that every man was potentially extraordinary — knew its most passionate persistence. Simply, America was the land where people still believed in heroes.

“Every ship from the New World came freighted with marvels which put the fictions of chivalry to shame; and to the Spaniard of that day America was a region of wonder and mystery, of vague and magnificent promise. Thither adventurers hastened, thirsting for glory and for gold, and often mingling the enthusiasm of the crusader and the valor of the knight-errant with the bigotry of inquisitors and the rapacity of pirates. They roamed over land and sea; they climbed unknown mountains, surveyed unknown oceans, pierced the sultry intricacies of tropical forests; while from year to year and from day to day new wonders were unfolded, new islands and archipelagoes, new regions of gold and pearl, and barbaric empires of more than Oriental wealth. The extravagance of hope and the fever of adventure knew no bounds.”

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) American historian

Pt. I, Ch. 1 Early Spanish Adventure
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

“They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb”

Kim Wilde (1960) English pop singer

Stone
Close (1988)

“I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

London Times interview http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6043331.ece (2009)

“One still strong man in a blatant land.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

Part I, section x, stanza 5
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”

John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer

“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

Walter Scott book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.

“Beyond these wild winds and gloomy skies,
beyond death’s cloudy portal, there is a land where beauty never dies and love becomes immortal,
a land whose light is never dimmed by shadow,
where nothing beautiful can ever fade,
but blooms for aye eternal.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://twitter.com/AKarpouzos/status/1609906977001406466

“Because I've been just drilled by TV hosts over the past week, "How dare you say that, uh, you know, it's not the law of the land?"" Because that's their phrase, "it’s the law of the land". Michael, the Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren't fully human. Does anybody still follow the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?”

Mike Huckabee (1955) Arkansas politician

Michael Medved Show, , quoted in

“Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.”

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist

The Twenty-Second of December http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page154, st. 1

Related topics