The orchestra will perform Edward Elgar's "Cockaigne" Overture and Vaughan Williams 'Symphony No. 2. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
Avalon and the sunsets of Cockaigne in tin cans at Ole. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
I agree, there should be a niche for stories without magic/monsters set in an invented world - whether it be Lyonesse or Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [An Involuntary King, by Nan Hawthorne. Book review and Book Giveaway] Reference
Cockaigne, in which rivers of porridge flowed through the land and roast hams and fish, pigs 'ribs already roasted stood ready to be eaten. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
By the way, the amateur orchestra in which I play clarinet in Kentucky will be performing Cockaigne tonight, a work previously unknown to most of my fellow players. From Wordnik.com. [Good morning] Reference
"The days that we went gipsying a long time ago;" whilst Hullah simpers forth, in softest accents of Cockaigne, the superlative claim of choral shows in Exeter Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Since 'urban fantasy' has caught on, there ought to be a place for its mirror image, stories set in some province of Cockaigne, but without the LOTR / D&D fantasy trappings. From Wordnik.com. [An Involuntary King, by Nan Hawthorne. Book review and Book Giveaway] Reference
Keats was ridding himself of the puerilities of Cockaigne when he wrote that fragment of an epic -- a fragment which is unsurpassed by any modern attempt at heroic composition. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Saturday Ramble: Politics and the land of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [SYNTAGMA] Reference
We are not in the Cockaigne of perfectibility, where. From Wordnik.com. [The Country Doctor] Reference
Sounds the oath of British commerce, or the accent of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference
Paul Di Filippo: "Return to Cockaigne" (Interzone, January 2001). From Wordnik.com. [Free Fiction and Stuff for 9/9/09] Reference
Sounds the oath of British commerce, or the accents of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Her face had the melancholy of Russia, but her voice was as the voice of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Cockaigne and the other ski resorts that are in operation in the area, think otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [The OBSERVER] Reference
She had the haunting melancholy of Russia in her face, but her voice was as the voice of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The Russian Quarter] Reference
Not Free SF Reader : Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Return To Cockaigne - Paul Di Filippo skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Return To Cockaigne - Paul Di Filippo] Reference
It was for the reader, not the El Dorado only, but a beatific land of Cockaigne and Paradise of Donothings!. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 25-49] Reference
The time came however -- all too soon --- when Madame de Verneuil could live in her Land of Cockaigne no longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
James said, as if honest steel and good cloth were reckoned as churls, and as if this were the very land of Cockaigne, as Sir Richard. From Wordnik.com. [The Caged Lion] Reference
Each of these wonder-dealers found his separate group of admirers, and great was the delight and loud the laughter in the pastime-ground of old Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
Beauty calls in many voices; but to me and to six million others she calls in the voice of Cockaigne, and it shall go hard with any man who hears the Call and does not answer. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Strange to say, when Edward Elgar decided to write an overture to the old City of London, he called it Cockaigne, and portrayed it as a fabulous country of luxury and delight. From Wordnik.com. [SYNTAGMA] Reference
He, the god-inspired, is to twang harps for thee, and blow through scrannel-pipes, to soothe thy sated soul with visions of new, still wider Eldorados, Houri Paradises, richer Lands of Cockaigne?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Collége St. Badaud dans le Département de la Haute Cockaigne "(Vol.III. p. 89). From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
My honoured foster-brother, thy Westmoreland blood seems over-hot for Cockaigne! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
Cockaigne of Dreams (A), 62. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914] Reference
Return To Cockaigne - Paul Di Filippo. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Golden Road - Damon Knight] Reference
@Best SF Presents: "Return to Cockaigne" by Paul Di Filippo (2001). From Wordnik.com. [Free Fiction and Stuff for 7/10/09] Reference
Cockaigne?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present] Reference
Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [On An Overgrown Path] Reference
Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [Spinner] Reference
Land of Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference
I The Pastime-ground of old Cockaigne. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
The title was "Cockaigne.". From Wordnik.com. [Impressions and Comments] Reference
This shaft for Cockaigne! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
04 Apr Cockaigne vs Endlich 18 @ Scala, Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [The Fast Life] Reference
Hanson the Red, OBE, VC, DSM-IV, MC5, PU, EIEIO, XYZ-PDQ, 124C41, OU812, THX1138, Last King of Scotland and Protector of Cockaigne and Llareggub. From Wordnik.com. [Sadly, No!] Reference
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