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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's shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks... "
Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ... - Page 107
1776
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 8

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 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,...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...of the former mode of poetic painting abound in the writings of Milton, ex. gr. " The fig tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, " But such as at this...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 28

England - 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...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 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...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 5

Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 894 pages
...counselled he; and both together went Into the thickest wood : there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this...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...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 6

Asia - 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...
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Facts authentic, in science and religion: designed to illustrate a new tr ...

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,...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign ..., Volume 6

Asia - 1818 - 708 pages
...fig-tree, at this day to Indians known la Malabar or Deccau, spreads her arms, Branching so broad anil long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,...grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarched,, and echoing walks between. Kuveer Bar is famous throughout India, for its vast extent...
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The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies: With a ..., Volume 5

Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 520 pages
...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...
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The Miscellany,or Evening's Occupation for the Youthful Peasantry of Ireland

1819 - 186 pages
...In Malabar or Ueccau, spreads her arms, 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 ovLT-tii'ch'd, and echoing walks bet weenThere oft the Indian herdsman, ehunning beat, Mheltri'* in...
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