 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 247by John Milton - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...bole being got, &c.] 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." Par. Lost. is. 1100. Poet. None, I assure you, neither do I think them , A worthy part of presentation,... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 pages
...itself a springseason, till the figurative words of Milton have been magnificently fulfilled:— " Her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the...overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Ettrick Shepherd,* shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pages
...abound in the writings of Milton, ex. gr. " The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, " But such as at this day to Indians known " In Malabar or Decan,...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow " About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade " Nigh over-arched, and ECHOING WALKS BETWEEN: " There oj't the Indian... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...Milton, ex. gr. " The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, " But such as at this day to Indian* known " In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching...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... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 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...pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks hct\vrm. Theie oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds... | |
 | 1818 - 706 pages
...vegetable world, drawn by Milton : The fig-tree, at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccau, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a piUar'd shade, High overarched, and echoing walks between. 386 him, and threw himself on the liberality... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree. Not that tree for fruit renown'd, But such, and at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan,...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Dccan 5+ UKUC leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ; And, with what skill they had, together sew'd,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 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...loop-holes cut through thickest shade : those leaves They gather' d, broad as Amazonian targe ; And, with what skill they had, together sew'd, To gird their... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade 1106 High overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut thro' thickest shade. Those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonism targe, 1111 And with what skill... | |
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