 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 336 pages
...sooner or later must fail. The form of the orangetree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the treefern, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; but the...picture full of indistinct but most beautiful figures. August 6th.—In the afternoon we stood out to sea, with the intention of making a direct course to... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1861 - 372 pages
...or later must fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the treefern, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; but the...picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures." * The late James Wilson made his first acquaintance with the storks of Holland under very impressive... | |
 | George Chaplin Child- Chaplin - 1866
...sooner or later must fail. The form of the orangetree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the ferntree, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; but the thousand beauties which unite them into one perfect scene must fade away ; yet they will leave, like a tale told in childhood, a... | |
 | George Chaplin Child - 1868 - 372 pages
...or later must fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the fern-tree, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite them into one perfect scene must fade away; yet they will leave, like a tale told in childhood, a picture... | |
 | 1870
...world,' and though from hie memory must lude the remembrance of certain forms of ife and beauty, ' yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of indistinct, but most britutiful, figures.' " A new edition of the "Poet and Painter," published for the first time in cloth... | |
 | Mrs. Samuel Greg - 1870 - 160 pages
...sooner or later fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the fern-tree, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite them into one perfect scene must fade away ; yet thejr will leave, like a tale told in childhood, a... | |
 | 1877
...or later must fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoanut, the palm, the mango, the tree-fern, the banana will remain clear and separate ; but the...picture full of indistinct but most beautiful figures." (" Nat. Voy.," pp. 496, 497.) C. LLOYD MOKGAN. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NOTES. I HAVE sometimes thought that... | |
 | 1879
...Booner or later must fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoanut, the palm, the mango, the treefern, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; but the...like a tale heard in childhood, a picture full of iudistiuct, but most beautiful figures." 12 [3JG] DARWIN AND HUMBOLDT. A spirit such as this, penetrating... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - 228 pages
...or later fail. The form of the orange • tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the tree-fern, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the...unite these into one perfect scene must fade away. THE KAURI PINE. AT Waimate, in New Zealand, two missionary gentlemen walked with me to part of a neighboring... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882
...or later must fail. The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the tree-fern, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; but the...picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures." A spirit such as this, penetrating an intelligence such as Mr. Darwin's, would not content itself with... | |
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The form of the orange-tree, the cocoa-nut, the palm, the mango, the treefern, the banana, will remain clear and separate; but the thousand beauties which unite these into one perfect scene must fade away; yet they will leave, like a tale heard in childhood,... 
