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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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Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 9

James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...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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A Visit to Colombia: In the Years 1822 & 1823, by Laguayra and Caracas, Over ...

William Duane - Caracas (Venezuela) - 1826 - 652 pages
...for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arras, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar' d--sfiade : There oft the Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...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 Malabar or Decan...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,...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 2

Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...thickest wood ; there soon they chose 1 100 The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning...
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The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King ..., Volume 4

John Nichols - England - 1828 - 702 pages
...BOY. Here, father. 1 Milton treads rather closely upon the heels of Jonson here : " The fig tree that In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so...shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Paradise Lost, ix, 1100. COOK. Bring forth the pot. It is an olla podrida. But I have persons to present...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 4

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,...between ; There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning hr.it, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.' And...
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Nature Reviewed: Or, a History of the Principal Domestic Productions of the ...

Nature - Home economics - 1829 - 178 pages
...Lost, Book 9 :— "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 Decan),...grow About the mother tree ; a pillar'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool,...
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in ...

Botany, Economic - 1829 - 446 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 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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A New and Easy System of Draining and Reclaiming the Bogs and Marshes of ...

Robert Monteath - Drainage - 1829 - 262 pages
...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over arched, and echoing walls between — There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." — Milton. A famous tree of this kind in India, called Cubbeer Burr, is much famed throughout Hindostan...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 4

Great Britain - 1830 - 482 pages
...spreads her arms, Branching so broad and limc, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, anil daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade,...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.' And as I actually read this beneath its high branching shades, I can assure you it is a very just account....
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