 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...the Fall by bringing in his account of the fig tree from which Adam and Eve take those fig leaves: not that kind for 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... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...passage as it appears in the poem from four lines 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 or Decan spreads her Arms Branching so broad and long . . . 1 1 See Johnson's description in... | |
 | Buddhism - 1986 - 844 pages
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 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...primitive state, they cover themselves with the leaves of the Indian fig or banyan tree: both together went Into the thickest Wood, there soon they chose...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... | |
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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... 
