| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd - 1797 - 310 pages
...pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick successon; but more commonly at intervals of several minutes...the atmosphere was clear; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with vapours nothing of it was seen. The following flowers emitted flashes,... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...colour ; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or thru times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...considerable distance. This phenomenon was remarked in tlie months of July and August at sunset, and for half an hour when the atmosphere was clear; but after... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 406 pages
...; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...in the months of July and August at sunset, and for balf an hour when the atmosphere was clear; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...colour ; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flashwas frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...remarked in the months of July and August at sunset, »nd for half an hour when the atmosphere was clear; but after a rainr day, or when the air was loaded... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pages
...colour, but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...remarked in the months of July and August, at sun-set, arid for half an hour after, when the atmosphere was dear; but after a rainy day, or when the air was... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 420 pages
...scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times m quick succession, but more commonly at intervals of...considerable distance. This phenomenon was remarked in the mouths of July and August, at sun-set, and for half an hour after, when the atmosphere was clear; but... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 496 pages
...; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession ; but more commonly at intervals...the atmosphere was clear ; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with vapours nothing of it was seen. The following flowers emitted flashes,... | |
| Sir Joseph Paxton - 1836 - 384 pages
...colour, but scarcely visible in pale ones. " The flash was frequently on the same flower two or three times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...of July and August, at sunset, and for half an hour after, when the atmosphere was clear ; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with vapours,... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession ; but more commonly at intervals...the atmosphere was clear; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded with vapours nothing of it was seen. The following flowers emitted flashes,... | |
| Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...colour; but scarcely visible on pale ones. The flash was frequently seen on the same flower two or three times in quick succession, but more commonly at intervals...the months of July and August, at sun-set, and for liai f an hour after, when the atmosphere was clear; but after a rainy day, or when the air was loaded... | |
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