 | Frederick Marryat - English fiction - 1846 - 232 pages
...concentration of an English и inter. In a week, or even in a shorter period, he again views that terra firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his...lands upon the island, what a change ! Winter has hecome summer, the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the most luxuriant and varied foliage,... | |
 | J. A. Mason - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1850 - 426 pages
...autumn — or the frigid concentration of an English winter. In a week he again views that terra firma which he had quitted with regret, and which, in his...possessed to regain. When he lands upon the Island, what a • For this relief to its generally barren aspect, the Island is indebted to Senhor Luiz d'Ornellas... | |
 | Robert White (of Madeira.) - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1851 - 244 pages
...autumn, or the frigid concentration of an English winter. In a week he again views that terra-firma which he had quitted with regret, and which, in his...the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the luxuriant and varied foliage ; snow and frost for warmth and splendour ; the scenery of the temperate... | |
 | Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1854 - 500 pages
...England in the gloomy close of autumn, or the frigid concentration of an English winter When he lands on the island, what a change ! Winter has become summer...the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the luxuriant and varied foliage ; snow and frost for warmth and splendour ; the scenery of the temperate... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, West - 1863 - 352 pages
...autumn, or the frigid concentration of an English winter. In a week he again views that terra-firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his...the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the luxuriant and varied foliage ; snow and frost for warmth and splendour ; the scenery of the temperate... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, West - 1863 - 324 pages
...autumn, or the frigid concentration of an English winter. In a week he again views that terra-firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his...regain. When he lands upon the island, what a change I Winter has become summer; the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the luxuriant and varied... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - Biography & Autobiography - 1873 - 388 pages
...concentration of an English winter. In a week, or even in a shorter period, he again views that terra firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his...sufferings he would have given half that he possessed to rrgain. When he lands upon the island, what a change ! Winter has become summer, the naked trees which... | |
 | Michael Comport Grabham - Botany - 1926 - 126 pages
...concentration of an English Winter. In a week, or even in a shorter period, he again views that terra firma which he had quitted with regret and which in his...naked trees which he left are exchanged for the most luxurious and varied foliage, snow and frost for warmth and splendour ; the scenery of the temperate... | |
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In a week he again views that terra-firma which he had quitted with regret, and which in his sufferings he would have given half that he possessed to regain. When he lands upon the island, what a change ! Winter has become summer ; the naked trees which... 