 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 pages
...Milton hath accurately described this extraordinary tree, though by another name : " Theflg-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 - Italy - 1834 - 648 pages
...Milton hath accurately described thii 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...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 day to Indians known " In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms " Branching so broad and long, that in the ground " The bended twigs take... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...Apocolocyntosis. By this fig-tree the author perhaps 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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Poets, English - 1835 - 456 pages
...Apocoloeyntosis. By this fig-tree the author perhaps 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 Dccan, spreads his arms, Braqching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...—or Banian, to which the epithet of Inatulla most emphatically belongs. name: •" Tbefig-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 to broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...counsel'd he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not lhat 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,... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...or hymning sphere, Antl listening angels hush their harps to hear." THE BANYAN TKEE. FICUS INDICA. " The fig-tree (not that kind for fruit renown'd, But...such as at this day to Indians known,) In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Brandling so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 512 pages
...as unclean. " So counsel'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...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 510 pages
...he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kiud for fruit renown^d; But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads hef arms • Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take... | |
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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... 
