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" 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... "
Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes - Page 247
by John Milton - 1853
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the ..., Volume 1

1830 - 438 pages
...twigs take root ; and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,...herds ; At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." as being of immense magnitude. One near Mangee, twenty miles to the westward of Patna, in Bengal, spread...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 28

1830 - 1034 pages
...magnificently fulfilled :— " Her arme Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bendud twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother...overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Ettrick Shepherd,* shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tend« his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut...
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India

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 458 pages
...bended twigs take root, and ilaughters grow Above the mother tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut thro' thickest shade." palankeens, grow near the summit of the rocks in the pergunnahs of Tolcan and...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 1

1831 - 626 pages
...not that kind for fruit renown 'd, But such as nt this day to Indians known, In Malabar or Deeean, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree — a ptllar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian...
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A compendium of ancient and modern geography

Aaron Arrowsmith - 1831 - 970 pages
...native prince, called Kerobothra*. 1 • — such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar 'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : — uul extended as far...
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Historical and descriptive account of British India, by H. Murray [and others].

1832 - 486 pages
...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, and echoing walks...those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe." BETUI/INE^E. The northern parts of Indostan have furnished DrWallich with four new species of birch...
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The Forest, Or, Rambles in the Woodland

Jefferys Taylor - 1832 - 244 pages
...downward twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shad^."* * Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 1102. THE HICKORY TREE. * ' * ' ' " OF this tree there are various...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree — a piilar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between...herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." Could the minds that conceived and the hands that wrought this prodigy of art have been those of men...
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Poems

Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 180 pages
...tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this time to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarched, with echoing walls between. Paradise Lost, b. 9. The palace is Aladdin's. It is needless...
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The Juvenile Forget Me Not: A Christmas Or New Year's Gift, Or Birthday ...

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833 - 260 pages
...twigs take root ; and daughters grow About the mother-tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds At loopholes cut through thickest shade.' * My young friends will, I am sure, permit me to make allusion to a little volume recently published...
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