... leave this part of our subject, we would assure any European reader who may suspect that we have in aught written too warmly of the physical beauty of the Archipelago, that the same Nature which, in the West, only reveals her highest and most prodigal... The Indian Archipelago: Its History and Present State - Page 14by Horace Stebbing Roscoe St. John - 1853 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
| Botany - 1847 - 510 pages
...West, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and glowing charms, in all their fullness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botanists who have visited... | |
| East Asia - 1847 - 560 pages
...west, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and glowing charms, in all their fullness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botan'sts who have visited... | |
| Science - 1848 - 494 pages
...west, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and...glowing charms, in all their fulness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botanists who have visited this region declare, that... | |
| Science - 1848 - 448 pages
...west, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and...glowing charms, in all their fulness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botanists who have visited this region declare, that... | |
| 1848 - 486 pages
...West, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and glowing charms, in all their fullness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botanists who have visited... | |
| 1848 - 1022 pages
...West, only reveals her highest and most prodigal terrestrial beauty to the imagination of the poet, has here ungirdled herself, and given her wild and glowing charms, in all their fullness, to the eye of day. The ideal has here passed into the real. The few botanists who have visited... | |
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