| William Beckford - 1834 - 414 Seiten
...— 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 shade High over-arch'd,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...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 or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching so broad and long, that in the ground " The bended twigs take root,... | |
| William Beckford - 1834 - 418 Seiten
...extraordinary tree, though by another name: ff 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,... | |
| William Beckford - 1834 - 648 Seiten
...i xtraordiniry tree, though by another name : "f \oiftg-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,... | |
| James Forbes - 1834 - 586 Seiten
...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 Deccan, spreads her arras, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 Seiten
...tree; but Milton has perhaps given a more graphic description in fewer words than any other writer : " The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renowned; But...broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs tnke root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, with echoing... | |
| Jefferys TAYLOR - 1835 - 324 Seiten
...of this tree with Milton's description, which, however, I presume, is at every tongue's end : — " Such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar,...Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The downward twigs take root, and daughters growAbout the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...means the wonderful bir or banian described by Milton. The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spreads his arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground . , The bended twigs take... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...means the wonderful bir or banian described by Milton. The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan, spreads his arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,... | |
| 1836 - 712 Seiten
...change the simile to a tree more suitable to the clime, it might compare him to the fig-tree — " Such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or...Deccan, spreads her arms — Branching so broad and lung, that in the ground The bended twips t.ike root, and daughters grow About the mother tree a pillared... | |
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