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" 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 shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 218
by John Milton - 1899 - 372 pages
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Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With ...

Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1838 - 430 pages
...Eve obtained leaves to form themselves garments ; he says it was not the fig-tree renowned for fruit, but " Such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar...that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters-grow About the mother tree, a pillar' d shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between."...
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Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...— 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...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow j About the mother-tree — a pillar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc ...

Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pages
...collected upon the lands." — Trends of to» Mohammedans. Page SO, line 54. Thy pillar'd shade«. 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. MILTON. For a particular description and plate...
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Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With ...

Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1838 - 438 pages
...obtained leaves to form themselves garments ; he says it was not the fig-tree renowned for fruit, but lt Such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms, Branching BO broad and Ions, that 'n the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother...
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Conversations on Nature and Art

Art - 1839 - 352 pages
...tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccah, spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that...daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarched, and echoing walks between; There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...went Into the thickest wood. There soon they choose The fig tree — not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Braunching so broad and long that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About...
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Three Graphic Novels

E.F. Bleiler - Fiction - 1966 - 356 pages
...fig-tree—not that kind for fruit renown'd; But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malahar or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow resembled the prohoscis of mighty elephants: but it does not appear from any other writer, that there...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life ..., Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...painting 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...arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground 'Sir William Davenant (1606- italicised part of the quotation into 68) Preface to Gondibert (1651)...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...Fruit renown'd But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan spreds her Armes Braunching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended Twigs...Daughters grow About the Mother Tree, a Pillard shade High overarch't, and echoing Walks between; There oft the Indian Herdsman shunning heate Shelters in...
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The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773

Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...to two, and in so doing concentrated the description: The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar...Decan spreads her Arms Branching so broad and long . . . 1 1 See Johnson's description in the Life of Milton (Lives, 1, pp. 101-31, fxusim). 12 See above,...
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