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  • The word Eothen, incidentally, means ‘from the east’, and the book describes the author’s travels in what is now, I suppose, called the Middle East.

    Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004

  • The word Eothen, incidentally, means ‘from the east’, and the book describes the author’s travels in what is now, I suppose, called the Middle East.

    Eothen and Mr Kinglake Michael Allen 2004

  • The word Eothen, incidentally, means ‘from the east’, and the book describes the author’s travels in what is now, I suppose, called the Middle East.

    April 2004 Michael Allen 2004

  • When the brilliant author of "Eothen" sojourned for a day or two in this "hot furnace of Mohammedanism," as he calls it, the whole

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • In Chapter XX. of "Eothen," comes this well known passage on the Sphynx

    International Finance Hartley Withers 1908

  • For Tennyson's poetry he even then felt admiration; quotes, nay, misquotes, in "Eothen," from the little known "Timbuctoo";

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • "Eothen," as he came to be called, was born at Taunton on the 5th August, 1809, at a house called "The Lawn."

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • "Sinai and Palestine," as a Fifth Gospel, an inspired Scripture Gazetteer; and "Eothen," as a literary gem of purest ray serene.

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • He was wont in after life to speak of this time with bitterness; a delicate child, he was starved on insufficient diet; and an eloquent passage in "Eothen" depicts his intellectual fall from the varied interests and expanding enthusiasm of liberal home teaching to the regulation gerund-grinding and Procrustean discipline of school.

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • That prefixed to Blackwood's "Eothen" of 1896 was furnished by Dr. Kinglake, who, however, looked upon it as unsatisfactory.

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

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