 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...declining sun, tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow colour, add most to the beauties of those climes. When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Biology - 1861 - 446 pages
...sun, tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow colour, add most to the beauties of those climes. " When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...who have not visited the intertropical regions the sensations of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to... | |
 | George Chaplin Child- Chaplin - 1866 - 308 pages
...some Brazilian cities Darwin thus writes : — " While quietly walking along the shady pathways, arid admiring each successive view, I wished to find language...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hot-house fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | George Chaplin Child - Benedicite - 1868 - 394 pages
...places one visits in a lifetime. Of the environs of some Brazilian cities Darwin thus writes:— "While quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hot-house fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg, Walter (fict.name.) - Children - 1870 - 168 pages
...landscapes around the cities of Brazil, Dr. Darwin writes : — • A BRAZILIAN LANDSCAPE. I 35 "While quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | Wonders - 1870 - 264 pages
...TROPICAL WILDERNESS. 81 express his ideas. Epithet after epithet has seemed too weak, when he has sought to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions the sensation of delight which his own mind has experienced. The land he describes as one great, wild, untidy, luxuriant hothouse,... | |
 | Mines and mineral resources - 1877 - 178 pages
...the declining sun, tinged of a red or bright yellow colour, add most to the beauties of those climes. "When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...who have not visited the intertropical regions the sensations of delight 116 •which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse... | |
 | 1879 - 614 pages
...One passage may be quoted as an illustration ; it is from the description of Bahia in chapter xxi: " When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | 1882 - 110 pages
...passage may be quoted as an illustration ; it is from the description of Bahia in chapter xxi. : — " When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1882 - 960 pages
...passage may be quoted as an illustration : it is from the description of Bahia in Chapter xxi. : — " When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and...the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I... | |
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When quietly walking along the shady pathways, and admiring each successive view, I wished to find language to express my ideas. Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sensation... 
