 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...parents, after their fall, as gathering the ample leaves, " broad as a target," to twine into girdles : " The fig-tree — not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indiana known, In Malabar or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground... | |
 | Art - 1839 - 352 pages
...aux Regions JEquinoclialcs, vol. vii. p. 330.) t Ficus Indica. MILTON AND SOUTHEY. 71 " The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan, spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that jr. the ground The bended twigs... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...which Milton so beautifully alludes in his " Paradise Lost :"— " So counselled he, and both together went Into the thickest wood : there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day, to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan, spreads his arms Branching... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...parents, after their fall, as gathering the ample leaves, " broad as a target," to twine into girdles : " The fig-tree — not that kind for fruit renown'd, But 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 bended twigs... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Master-pieces of the former mode of poetic painting abound in the writings of Milton, ex. gr. " The fig tree, l deed, That, propagating still, it brings forth evil. 1 do not cheat my better so Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching so broad and long, that in the ground " The bended twig*... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...shame, " There sit not, and reproach us as unclean." So counsell'd he, and hoth together went 1100 Into the thickest wood : there soon they chose The...arms, Branching so hroad and long, that in the ground 1105 The hended twigs take root, and daughters grow Ahout the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...new-comer, shame, " There sit not, and reproach us as unclean." So counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood : there soon they chose...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...this new comer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean." So eounscll'd he, and both together ce of the deep, The winds lay only not asleep : The...pleasant, calmly fair : Soft fell her words, as flew Malabar or Decan spreads her anus Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...one which served " our general mother" for her first essay in the art of needlework. " Both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that tree for fruit reuown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1841 - 446 pages
...one which served " our general mother" for her first essay in the art of needlework. " Both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that tree for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Dec-can spreads her... | |
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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... 
