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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... "
Dwight's American Magazine - Page 89
edited by - 1847
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...fruit renown'd But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spread her arms Blanching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughter! grow ' About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over arch'd, and echoing walks between...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 6, Part 2

1810 - 590 pages
...region of the coast. The facility with which this singular plant .reproduces itself is well known : The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over arched, and echoing walks between. It requires very little cultivation. By...
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A Vindication of the British and Foreign Bible Society: In a Letter ...

William Dealtry - 1811 - 422 pages
...tree of the East, " 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...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd ; • , the Society of London has sent its shoots in every direction,...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - 1811 - 564 pages
...fpread,'] Such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar and Docan fprcads her arms Branching fo broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd (hade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdfman, jhimning...
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A Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Containing an Historical Account ..., Volume 1

John Brown - Bible - 1811 - 748 pages
...fruit renown'd,, But such as, at this day to Indians knowu In Malabar or l)ccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long that in the ground The bended twigs take toot, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over arch'd, and echoing walk$...
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The Poetical Works of Hector Macneill, Esq, Volume 1

Hector Macneill - 1812 - 224 pages
...Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bearded twigs take root, and daughters grow Above the mother tree ; a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between." Paradise Lost, book ix. It is called in the East Indies, ' the banyan tree.' Mr Marsden gives the following...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...for fruit reuown'd, But such as at this day. to Indians known, In Malabar or Deean spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow 1 10"5 About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...botanists), to become convert«!, in course of time, into auxiliary stems, — " Branching 9J long and broad, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and...shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat. Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds; At loopholes...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 8

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...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...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Par. Lost. is. 1100. Poet. None, I assure...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 28

England - 1830 - 1024 pages
...springseason, till the figurative words of Milton have been magnificently fulfilled:— " Her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Ettrick Shepherd,* shunning...
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