lubberland

lubber +‎ land

lubberland (plural lubberlands)

1. Synonym of Cockaigne, a land of plenty
   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book second, page 113:

     “Truth!” I cried, “though the Heavens crush me for following her: no Falsehood! though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of Apostasy.”

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Contrat Social”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age), page 54:

     In such prophesied Lubberland, of Happiness, Benevolence, and Vice cured of its deformity, trust not, my friends! Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous.

   • 1864 March, “On the Relation of Art to Nature”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎, volume 13, number 77:

     All action and story, all individuality of persons, objects, and events, is merged in a pervading atmosphere of tranquil, sunny repose,—as of a holiday-afternoon. It may seem to us an idle lubberland, a paradise of do-nothings;—Mr. Ruskin sees in it only a "dim, stupid, serene, leguminous enjoyment."

• “lubberland”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.