 | 1863 - 568 lehte
...effects on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there, and the vasmess of nature. ***** We often read in books of travels of the silence and...deepens on a longer acquaintance. The few sounds of hirds are of that pensive or mysterious character which intensifies the feeling of solitude rather... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1863 - 516 lehte
...lasts from July to December, is varied with showers, and the wet from January to June, with sunny days. We often read, in books of travels, of the silence and gloom of the primeval forest. They are — Mr. Bates adds his testimony to the fact — realities, and the impression,... | |
 | 1863 - 648 lehte
...lasts from July to December, is varied with showere, and the wet from January to June, with sunny days. We often read, in books of travels, of the silence and gloom of the primeval forest. They are — Mr. Bates adds his testimony to the fact — realities, and the impression,... | |
 | 1863 - 520 lehte
...lasts from July to December, is varied with showers, and the wet from January to June, with sunny days. We often read, in books of travels, of the silence and gloom of the primeval forest. They are — Mr. Bates adds his testimony to the fact — realities, and the impression,... | |
 | 1865 - 610 lehte
...Bates's impressions of the interior of a primeval forest : — ' The silence and gloom,' he Bays, ' arc realities, and the impression deepens on a longer...acquaintance. The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious character which intensifies tho feeling of solitude rather than imparts a sense of life... | |
 | 1866 - 900 lehte
...read Mr. Bates's impressions of the interior of a primeval forest : " The silence and gloom," he says, "are realities, and the impression deepens on a longer...acquaintance. The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious character which intensifies the feeling of solitude rather tan imparts a sense of life... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1886 - 666 lehte
...temperate lands." Mr. Bates, on this subject, says : — "The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious character which intensifies the feeling...rather than imparts a sense of life and cheerfulness." On the question of tropical bird-music much remains to be said by future travellers ; but South America... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 lehte
...mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of Nature. '•*••• " We often read in books of travels of the silence and...Brazilian forests. They are realities, and the impression demons on a longer acquaintance. The few sounds of birds are of that tpansive or mysterious character... | |
 | James Lowry Donaldson - 1871 - 348 lehte
...recent writer thus alludes to certain mysterious noises in the Brazilian forests: "The silence and gloom are realities, and the impression deepens on a longer...acquaintance. The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious character which intensifies the feelings of solitude rather than imparts a sense of... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1889 - 764 lehte
...became almost painful a cool, moist, clammy air pervaded the noiseless shade." Again, " we often read of the silence and gloom of the Brazilian forests...the impression deepens on a longer acquaintance," and yet ho speaks of the ground beneath the trees as "carpeted with Lycopodium" and of the number of... | |
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The few sounds of birds are of that pensive and mysterious character which intensifies the feeling of solitude rather than imparts a sense of life and cheerfulness. 
