| James Forbes - 1834 - 586 strani
...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... | |
| William Beckford - 1834 - 418 strani
...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,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 strani
...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,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 strani
...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,... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 strani
...description in fewer words than any other writer : " The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renowned; But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs tnke root, and daughters grow About... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 692 strani
...description in fewer words than any other writer : " The fig-tree; not that kind for fruit renowned; But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About... | |
| Jefferys TAYLOR - 1835 - 324 strani
...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, or Deccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The downward twigs take root, and daughters growAbout... | |
| William Beckford - 1836 - 416 strani
...—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 strani
...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,... | |
| 1836 - 712 strani
...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... | |
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