 | 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
...heightened by the contrast of the coal black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular ' profusion over every portion of its surface.' . . . ' The ' spectator feels himself transported, as if by...characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, pre' sented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their ' primeval life — their scaly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...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 now unknown upon the випасе of the earth, presented 'to his senses almost in the beauty and vigor of their primeval... | |
 | Maria Hack - Geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...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 no longer to be seen upon the surface of the earth, presented to his eye in almost their original beauty... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself...presented to his senses, almost in the beauty and vigor of their primeval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...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,...unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his lenses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life; their scaly stems and bending branches,... | |
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The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he... 
