clime🔊

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, / Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat / That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom / For that celestial light?

My soul turn from them, turn we to survey / Where rougher climes a nobler race display,

"And as their valour, so you trow, defied / on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, / so many changing skies their manhood tried, / such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"

She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.

She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.