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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... "
Glimpses of the Wonderful: A Series of Instructive Sketches for the Young - Page 52
edited by - 1858 - 153 pages
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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the ..., Volume 1

1830 - 438 pages
...tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool; and tends his pasturing...herds ; At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." as being of immense magnitude. One near Mangee, twenty miles to the westward of Patna, in Bengal, spread...
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India

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 458 pages
...tree, a pillared shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut thro' thickest shade." palankeens, grow near the summit of the rocks in the pergunnahs of Tolcan and...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 1

1831 - 626 pages
...— a ptllar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Could the minds that conceived, and the hands that wrought, this prodigy of art, have been those of...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks hetween : There oft the Indian herdsman, shuuning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut tbrough thickest shade ; those leaves They gather'd, hroad as Amazonian targe ; And, with what skill...
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The Forest, Or, Rambles in the Woodland

Jefferys Taylor - 1832 - 244 pages
...tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, " Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shad^."* * Paradise Lost, book ix. 1. 1102. THE HICKORY TREE. * ' * ' ' " OF this tree there are various...
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Historical and descriptive account of British India, by H. Murray [and others].

1832 - 486 pages
...and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut through thickest...
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Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most ..., Volume 3

Hugh Murray - 1832 - 392 pages
...and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : | There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and lends his pasturing herds . At loopholes cut through...
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Familiar Lectures on Botany: Including Practical and Elementary Botany ...

Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1832 - 448 pages
...the fig-tree renowned for fruit, but branching so broad and long, that m the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between." Knowledge necessary to the painter — Branches alter in their...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...— a pillar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing...herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." Could the minds that conceived, and the hands that wrought this prodigy of art, have been those of...
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The Juvenile Forget Me Not: A Christmas Or New Year's Gift, Or Birthday ...

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833 - 260 pages
...mother-tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool ; and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut through thickest shade.' * My young friends will, I am sure, permit me to make allusion to a little volume recently published...
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