| Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1841 - 424 Seiten
...went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that tree for fruit reuown'd, But such as at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad aud long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree,... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1841 - 316 Seiten
...Milton, has given a beautiful delineation of it. " 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, Branching >o broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother... | |
| 1841 - 272 Seiten
...breakfast nu>lei- its bought. Milton, iq his Parodist Lott, alludes tq th;; baniantree, when he speaks of The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indian known, In Malabar or Deccan. spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground... | |
| 1841 - 488 Seiten
...banyan of the Hindoos. ' — — — Such as at this day (to Indian! known ]u Malabar <ir Peerán,) spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground Th': bended twigs take root, and daughters grow Abnut the mother tree, apillar'd shade, High, over... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 Seiten
...The 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 in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow resembled the prohoscis of mighty elephants: but it does... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 Seiten
...not that kind for fruit renown 'd; But such as at this day to Indians known, In Malahar or Dcccan, spreads her arms. Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow resembled the prohoscis of mighty elephants: but it does... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 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 'Sir William Davenant (1606-... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...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 take root,... | |
| Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 Seiten
...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 the Life... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...counselled he, and both together went Into the thickest wood, there soon they chose 1 100 The fig-tree46" - not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this...Branching so broad and long that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched,... | |
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