 The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd...  The Miscellany,or Evening's Occupation for the Youthful Peasantry of Ireland - Page 1041819Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...Milton treads rather closely upon the heels of Jonson here : " The fig tree that In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...not that kind for fruit renown'd, " But such as at this day to Indian* known " In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching so broad and long, that in the ground " The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow " About the mother-tree, a pillar' d shade " High ever-arched,... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 pages
...itself a springseason, till the figurative words of Milton have been magnificently fulfilled:— " Her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarch'd,... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...fig-tree. Not that tree for fruit renown'd, But such, and at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...grow About the mother tree ; a pillar'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between. 178. [Gen. ii. 8.] The Egyptians represent the year by a palm-trte,... | |
 | 1818 - 708 pages
...la Malabar or Deccau, spreads her arms, Branching so broad anil long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarched,, and echoing walks between. Kuveer Bar is famous throughout India, for its vast extent... | |
 | 1818 - 706 pages
...vegetable world, drawn by Milton : The fig-tree, at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccau, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a piUar'd shade, High overarched,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
 | 1819 - 426 pages
...it the arched Indian fig tree. To this Milton alludes in the following beautiful description : — Branching so broad and long, that in the ground ,...root; and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 520 pages
...fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar and Decan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bearded twigs take root, and daughters grow Above the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over-arch'd,... | |
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