 | 1830 - 492 pagina’s
...to the Arctic Regions. A BRAZILIAN FOREST. THE day has past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has been wandering in a Brazilian forest. Among the multitude of striking objects, the general luxuriance... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1861 - 446 pagina’s
...South America he has thus recorded : — " The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist, who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 372 pagina’s
...rainy season the whole town is under water. Signs of indolence and neglect were every where visible. Idle men, with an uncertain mixture of European, Negro,...who for the first time wanders in a South American forest£v The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation, tossed out luxuriantly its glossy... | |
 | 1875 - 232 pagina’s
...not allow them space enough to unfold themselves.' To which we may add Mr. Darwin's testimony : — ' Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1885 - 238 pagina’s
...which everywhere forms the chief charm of his direct and unaffected literary style — ' delight itself is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | George Thomas Bettany - 1887 - 224 pagina’s
...a passage which is of special interest. " The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a. naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 pagina’s
...A, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29th. — The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1891 - 374 pagina’s
...exuberance that he had never dreamed of. In his Journal he penned the following : " Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 pagina’s
...RAIIIA, OB SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29lh. — The day ha-s past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 pagina’s
...OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 2gth. — The day has passed "SelTgMFuIIy." Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasiticaTfJIarTRj,... | |
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The day has passed delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants,... 
