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teract the effect produced upon us by those man-made mountains,
girt round with forests of palm-trees. As the sun and the cham-
pagne went down, our spirits rose : and, by the time the evening
and the mist had rendered the country invisible, we had persuad-
ed ourselves that Egypt was indeed the lovely land that Moore
has so delightfully imagined in the pages of the "Epicurean."
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teract the effect produced upon us by those man-made mountains,
girt round with forests of palm-trees. As the sun and the cham-
pagne went down, our spirits rose : and, by the time the evening
and the mist had rendered the country invisible, we had persuad-
ed ourselves that Egypt was indeed the lovely land that Moore
has so delightfully imagined in the pages of the "Epicurean."