lotus eater

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I felt a dash of the infatuation of the lotus-eater, in his "—land that seemed always afternoon."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

How they got home you must read in Homer:—Mr. Tennyson—himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater—leaves them in full song.

From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis

It was aristocratic, enchantingly indolent, like the face of a happy lotus-eater.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The fabled lotus-eater wished never to leave the isle whence he had plucked it.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

Diana, have you really performed suttee, have you buried yourself alive in this sweet spot deliberately, or has the love of retirement grown upon you, and have you become a kind of lotus-eater?'

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)