 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees, of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - Geological surveys - 1836 - 174 pages
...profusion overy portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork...world; he beholds trees, of forms and characters now unJcnown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigor of their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees, of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...vegetables, with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world; he beholds trees, of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. Tlie spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world;... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 372 pages
...vegetables, with the light ground- work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1839 - 444 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of...rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and... | |
 | Maria Hack - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...the effect is heightened by the contrast of colour between the coal-black hue of the vegetable forms, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels as if he were transported by enchantment into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of forms... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...is heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light ground work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself Iransponed as by enchantment ¡mo the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of forms and characters... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...over every portion of iti surface. The effect ia heightened by the contrast of the coal-blick colour of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they arc attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another... | |
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The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, encircled with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these... 
