atlas quotes

The discumbered Atlas of the state.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Retirement'.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

-Murphy, Dervla
  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks a-crow.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Under Ben Bulben', stanza1. Collected in Last Poems (1939).

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