 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...  English Poems - Page 68by John Milton - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 520 pages
...Africa, as well as the tropical parts of America, is described by our divine poet with great exactness ; The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, 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 bearded twigs take... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...unclean." So counseled he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose 1 100 The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But...spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in tlie ground The bended twigs take root, and daughter's grow 1105 About the mother tree, a pillar'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...as unclean." So counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose - Dccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...as unclean." So counsell'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose 1100 The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit reuown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and loop, than in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...as unclean." So counsell'd he; and both together went Into the thickest wood: there soon they chose The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But...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... | |
 | Anthony Todd Thomson - Botany - 1822 - 778 pages
...to hide themselves after their fall : They chose The Fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown 'd, But such as, at this day to Indians known In Malabar...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar's shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : &c. Paradise... | |
 | Thomas Strangeways - Miskito Indians - 1822 - 390 pages
...Africa, as well as the tropical parts of America, is described by our divine poet with great exactness. " The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar and Pecan, spreads her arm?, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bearded twigs take... | |
 | Arminianism - 1835 - 1024 pages
...of the east, — " Such as at this day to Indians known, In Malabar, or Deccan, spreads her arras, 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 ovcr-arch'd." The author of " Spiritual Despotism " proceeds... | |
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