 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pagina’s
...blossom, and their exquisite appearance, as they encircle the mossy and leafed trunk, with flowers of •every hue, can scarcely be imagined. At this period,...numbers of trees add their tribute of beauty, and the flower domed forest, from its many colored altars, ever sends heavenward worshipful incense." Enliven... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 234 pagina’s
...they encircle the mossy and leafed trunk with flowers of every hue, can 170 THE PEOPLE OF THE FOKEST. scarcely be imagined. At this period, too, vast numbers...revelry over the wood arches. Squirrels scamper in ecstacy from limb to limb, unable to contain themselves for joyousness. Coatis are gambolling among... | |
 | 1848 - 740 pagina’s
...blossom ; and their exquisite appearance, as they encircle the mossy and leaved trunk with flowers of every hue, can scarcely be imagined. At this period,...through festooned bowers, or chasing in revelry over the wood-arches. Squirrels scamper in ecstasy from limb to limb, unable to contain themselves for joyousnesa.... | |
 | Nancy Stepan - 2001 - 300 pagina’s
...with exotic life forms. Edwards's overblown literary style is captured in the following excerpt: ... vast numbers of trees add their tribute of beauty, and the flower-domed forest from its many coloured altars ever sends heavenward worshipful incense. Nor is this wild luxuriance unseen or... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 pagina’s
...Up the River Amazon, published the same year as Darwin's book. Edwards wrote of the Amazon that the "vast numbers of trees add their tribute of beauty, and the flower-domed forest from its many coloured altars ever sends heavenward worshipful incense. Nor is this wild luxuriance unseen or... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 2003 - 464 pagina’s
...1847), which strongly influenced Wallace and Bates, was inclined to whimsical descriptions: ". . . vast numbers of trees add their tribute of beauty, and the flower-domed forest from its many coloured altars ever sends heavenward worshipful incense. Nor is this wild luxuriance unseen or... | |
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... resembling lilies, now grasses or other familiar plants. Often a dozen varieties cluster upon a single tree. Towards the close of the rainy season they are in blossom, and their exquisite appearance, as they encircle the mossy and leafed trunk with... 