...understanding and enobles the feelings. Here is a passage from Humboldt, suggestive of the Homeric school : "If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...own distant travels, I would instance among the most gtriking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night, when the stars, not sparkling as...

...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. "If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their,soft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; — or I would recall the deep valleys...

...various sensations that derive their charm and permanenee from the peculiar character of the scene. " If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections of my own distant travels, 1 would instanee, among the most striking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night,...

...naturalist, Von Humboldt, enables his pen to attract us somewhat mysteriously. " If I might," says he, " be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...where the tall and slender palms pierce the leafy vail around them, and waving on high their feathery and arrow-like branches, form as it were, ' a forest...

...of ocean. " If," says Humboldt, " I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollection of my own travels, I would instance, among the most striking...not sparkling as in our northern skies, shed their Epft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; or I would recal the deep valleys of the Cordilleras,...

...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...skies, shed their soft and planetary light over the gently-heaving ocean ; — or I would recall the deep valleys of the Cordilleras, where the tall and...

...various sensations that derive their charm and permanence from the peculiar character of the scene. If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections...striking scenes of nature, the calm sublimity of a tropicai night, when the stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their soft and planetary...

...Nature, and thus serve for our admonition, exciting our curiosity, and attracting us to explore. " I would instance, among the most striking scenes of Nature, the calm sublimity of a tropical night," says Alexander Von Humboldt, " when the stars, not sparkling, as in our northern skies, shed their...

...well-defined boundary-line between day and night. The twilight at Quito lasts only an hour and a half; on the coast it is still shorter. Nor is there any "...tropical night, when the stars — not sparkling, as in oivr Northern skies — shed their soft and planetary light over the gently heaving ocean ; or I would...

...for я moment amid the revelations of his wondrous zeal, as depicted in the Cosmos, to tell us : " If I might be allowed to abandon myself to the recollections of my own distant travels, I would instance the deep valleys of the Cordilleras, with their forests above a forest; I would describe the peak of...