 | 1830 - 492 页
...Captain Ross's Second Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions. A BRAZILIAN FOREST. THE day has past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term...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... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 378 页
...attractive to one who had recently rambled over the comparatively bleak hills of New England. Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest. The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation, tossed... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 372 页
...attractive to one who had recently rambled over the comparatively bleak hills of New England. "'•'Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest£v The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation,... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 358 页
...attractive to one wrho had recently rambled over the comparatively bleak hills of New England. Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest. The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation, tossed... | |
 | James Orton - 1870 - 362 页
...attractive to one who had recently rambled over the comparatively bleak hills of New England. Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest. The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation, tossed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 546 页
...to the nearer parts of the scenery. BAHIA, on SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29th. — The day has past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term...the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the genoral luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. A most paradoxical mixture of sound... | |
 | James Orton - 1875 - 672 页
...attractive to one who had recently rambled over the comparatively bleak hills of New England. Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest. The superb banana, the great charm of equatorial vegetation, tossed... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 页
...the nearer parts of the scenery. RAIIIA, OB SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 29lh. — The day ha-s past delightfully. Delight itself, however, is a weak term...the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the genoral luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. A most paradoxical mixture of sound... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 页
...parts of the scenery. BAHIA, OR SAN SALVADOR. BRAZIL, Feb. 2gth. — The day has passed "SelTgMFuIIy." Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express...forest. The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasiticaTfJIarTRj, the "beauty of the flower&,.,the glossy green of the foliagCj but :.aboye : all... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 530 页
...recall forcibly those expressed by Darwin in similar terms at the close of his "Journal": "Delight ... is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist...beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage . . . the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. A paradoxical mixture of... | |
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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, the beauty of the flowers, the... 
