 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 Saturday Magazine - Page 261841Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 410 pages
...are collected upon the lands." — Travels of two Mohammedans. Page 138. Thy pillar 'd shades. L i in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, apillar'd shade, High over-arch' d, and echoing walks between. MILTON. For a particular description... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...fig-tree, not the kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar or Dcccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow, About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over-arched,... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...; not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
 | John Nichols - England - 1828 - 702 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...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Paradise Lost, ix, 1100. COOK. Bring forth the pot. It is... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 374 pages
...description of this tree in the Paradise Lost (b. ix. 1101, a seq.) " such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow Above the mother tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 484 pages
...such as, at this day to Indians known, 1 n Malabar or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad aud long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning hr.it, Shelters in... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 510 pages
...trunks, resembling, in the language of Milton, the Eastern tree — — ' Such, as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar, or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade, High, over-arched,... | |
 | Robert Monteath - Drainage - 1829 - 262 pages
...beautiful evergreen mantles, bid fair to plenish the estate of Braco, " Like the famed Indian Banyan tree, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over arched,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...the outside with hides, and so had the Venetian«. Raleigh. They chose the fig-tree, such as spread her arms. Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root. Hilton. TWI'LIGHT, ns & adj. Sax. rpeoneleoht ; Belg. tweelicht. The faint light before sunrise, and... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 458 pages
...description of this tree in the Paradise Lost (b. ix. 1101, et seg.) " such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching...that, in the ground The bended twigs take root, and ilaughters grow Above the mother tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between.... | |
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