 Stretching far away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore, and cedar, and beyond, yellow fields of maize and the towering maguey, intermingled with orchards and blooming gardens ; for flowers, in such demand...  Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and republican - Stran 31avtor: Brantz Mayer - 1852Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...brilliancy of coloring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 440 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of colouring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance.* Stretching far away at... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 strani
...and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly 5 rarefied atmosphere of these upper regions, even remote...away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, syca6 more and cedar; and beyond, yellow fields of maize, and the towering maguey, intermingled with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of colouring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of colouring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...brilliancy of coloring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their feet were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore,... | |
 | William Dalton - 1862 - 556 strani
...Spaniards at the first sight of that famous valley is thus admirably described by Prescott : — " In the highly rarefied atmosphere of these upper regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of colouring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...regions, even remote objects have a brilliancy of colouring and a distinctness of outline which seem to annihilate distance. Stretching far away at their... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1867 - 506 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread cut like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them In the highly rarefied atmosphere of these upper regions, e^en remote objects have a brilliancy of coloring and a distinctness of outline which scorn to annihilate... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 strani
...woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them. In the highly rarefied...distinctness of outline, which seems to annihilate distance. 2. Stretching far away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore, and cedar, and far... | |
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