| 1861 - 462 pagina’s
...understanding and enobles the feelings. Here is a passage from Humboldt, suggestive of the Homeric school : "If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...own distant travels, I would instance among the most gtriking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night, when the stars, not sparkling as... | |
| 1849 - 612 pagina’s
...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. "If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their,soft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; — or I would recall the deep valleys... | |
| 1849 - 604 pagina’s
...various sensations that derive their charm and permanenee from the peculiar character of the scene. " If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections of my own distant travels, 1 would instanee, among the most striking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night,... | |
| Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1852 - 420 pagina’s
...naturalist, Von Humboldt, enables his pen to attract us somewhat mysteriously. " If I might," says he, " be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...where the tall and slender palms pierce the leafy vail around them, and waving on high their feathery and arrow-like branches, form as it were, ' a forest... | |
| 1852 - 432 pagina’s
...of ocean. " If," says Humboldt, " I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollection of my own travels, I would instance, among the most striking...not sparkling as in our northern skies, shed their Epft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; or I would recal the deep valleys of the Cordilleras,... | |
| J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pagina’s
...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...skies, shed their soft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; — or I would recall the deep valleys of the Cordilleras, where the tall and... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1864 - 478 pagina’s
...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...striking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropicai night, when the stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their soft and planetary... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - 1865 - 324 pagina’s
...Nature, and thus serve for our admonition, exciting our curiosity, and attracting us to explore. " I would instance, among the most striking scenes of Nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night," says Alexander Von Humboldt, " when the stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their... | |
| James Orton - 1870 - 378 pagina’s
...which arrests the attention of the traveler is the comparatively well-defined boundary-line between day and night. The twilight at Quito lasts only an...tropical night, when the stars — not sparkling, as in oivr Northern skies — shed their soft and planetary light over the gently heaving ocean ; or I would... | |
| 1874 - 578 pagina’s
...for я moment amid the revelations of his wondrous zeal, as depicted in the Cosmos, to tell us : " If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections of my own distant travels, I would instance the deep valleys of the Cordilleras, with their forests above a forest; I would describe the peak of... | |
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