"Iceland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wrote a love story ("Hans of Iceland") in two weeks, where were recited his hopes, fears, and constancy, and this book ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... is a short one. Comes the first hint of a thaw and he has vanished like a melting snowflake, back to his home and his mate. There in a hollow in the half-frozen Iceland moss, in February, as many as ten fuzzy little snowy owlets may grow up in one nest,—all as hardy and beautiful and brave as ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... Coleccion de Viages, tom. ii., Col. Dipl., no. 1.—Munoz, Hist. del Nuevo-Mundo, lib. 2, sec. 17.—It is singular that Columbus, in his visit to Iceland, in 1477, (see Fernando Colon, Hist. del Almirante, cap. 4,) should have learned nothing of the Scandinavian voyages to the northern shores of America in the tenth and following centuries; yet if he ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott
... hospitality, industry, intellectual cultivation, morality, and habitual piety of the Icelanders, without a grateful sense of the adaptation of Christianity to the wants of our race, and of its ability to purify, elevate, and transform the worst elements of human character. In Iceland Christianity has performed its work of civilization, unobstructed by that commercial cupidity which has caused nations more favored in respect to soil and climate to lapse into an idolatry scarcely less debasing and cruel than that which preceded ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... us to the past and the threads that stretch out into the future are more satisfactory to us here in the United States, with the complexity of its interests for us, than they would be in Nicaragua, or Guam, or Iceland. ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
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