 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pàgines
...expression, which has given occasion to the sneer. The fig-tree, riot that kind for fruit renown 'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms What could they do for needles and thread ? But the original signifies no more than that they twisted... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pàgines
...foliage and concealing shades. Braome. 182 BOOK IX. 183 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 What could they do for needles and thread? But the original signifies no more than that they twisted... | |
 | 1836 - 634 pàgines
...counselled he ; and both together went Into the thickest wood : there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd. But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malahar or Decan spreads her a rax, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1824 - 526 pàgines
...beautifully described by Milton : — " 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 and echoing walks between." Of all trees, it is the most charming of nature's productions,... | |
 | John Benjamin Seely - 1825 - 676 pàgines
...in this fruit is, that scarcely any two mangoes off the same tree are of the same colour inside. z Branching so broad and long, that in •the -ground...shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Some of these trees cover a large piece of ground, where a hundred people might be well shaded, and... | |
 | John Shute Duncan - 1825 - 124 pàgines
...the banyan as the hiding-place of Adam and Eve after their fall : They chose — the fig-tree, such to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spreads her...Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About their mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High overarch'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 pàgines
...Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig tree ; noMhat kind for fruit renown'd, 1100 But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar...daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade 1105 High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsmen, shunning heat, Shelters... | |
 | William Duane - 1826 - 642 pàgines
...: the passage is as follows : There soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar...daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade : There oft the Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pàgines
...counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this...her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the groul The bended twigs take root, and daughters gro About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 652 pàgines
...more favoured days, aiid thence describe the tree " to Indians known," which — In Malabar, or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree. I have now brought together two names which hold no inconsiderable station among The genuine kings... | |
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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's shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks... 
