 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...  Hortensius: Or, The Advocate: An Historical Essay - Page 390by William Forsyth - 1849 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between: There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...renown'd for fruit, But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar and 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 shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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...take 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,... | |
 | 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...take 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... | |
 | 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 daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
 | 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...take 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...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...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
 | 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...take 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...fruit renown'd, " But such as at this day to Indian* known " In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching so broad and long, that in the ground "...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow " About the mother-tree, a pillar' d shade " High ever-arched, and ECHOING WALKS BETWEEN; " There oft the Indian... | |
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