 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - 604 páginas
...the liliaceous plants mingled with the gramina assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Theh' form is indeed striking; they dazzle by the variety and splendour of their colours; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation, which exists among the plants that... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1822 - 592 páginas
...family become shrubs. It would seem as if the liliaceous plants mingled with the gramina assumed 368 the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their form...the variety and splendour of their colours ; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation, which exists among the plants that... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1840 - 448 páginas
...which stud the equinoctial plains. " It would seem as if liliaceous plants, mingled with the grasses, assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their...by the variety and splendour of their colours, but too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation which exists among the plants that compose... | |
 | 1862 - 796 páginas
...because the luxuriance of vegetation develops everything into shrubs. The form and color are beautiful, " but, being too high above the soil, they disturb that...the peculiar type of beauty proper to the locality." But every midsummer reveals the same tendency. In early spring, when all is bare, and email objects... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 páginas
...because the luxuriance of vegetation develops everything into shrubs. The form and color are beautiful, " but, being too high above the soil, they disturb that...the peculiar type of beauty proper to the locality." But every midsummer reveals the same tendency. In early spring, when all is bare, and small objects... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 páginas
...because the luxuriance of vegetation develops everything into shrubs. The form and color are beautiful, " but, being too high above the soil, they disturb that...the peculiar type of beauty proper to the locality." But every midsummer reveals the same tendency. In early spring, when all is bare, and small objects... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 358 páginas
...dicotyledonous family become shrubs.* It would seem as if the liliaceous plants, mingled with the gramina, assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their...the variety and splendour of their colours ; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation which exists among the plants that compose... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 356 páginas
...dicotyledonous family become shrubs.* It would seem as if the liliaceous plants, mingled with the gramina, assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their...the variety and splendour of their colours ; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation which exists among the plants that compose... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 494 páginas
...dicotyledonous family become shrubs.* It would seem as if the liliaceous plants, mingled with the gramina, assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their...is indeed striking ; they dazzle by the variety and splendor of their colours ; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation which... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 496 páginas
...dicotyledonous family become shrubs.* It would seem as if the liliaceous plants, min_ with the gramiua, assumed the place of the flowers of our meadows. Their...is indeed striking ; they dazzle by the variety and splendor of their colours ; but, too high above the soil, they disturb that harmonious relation which... | |
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... to lie upon a smooth bed of verdure. Between the tropics, the strength and luxury of vegetation give such a development to plants, that the smallest of the dicotyledonous family become shrubs.* It would seem as if the liliaceous plants, mingled with... 
