 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833 - 260 pages
...along, that in the ground The bending twigs take root ; and daughters grow About the mother-tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree — a pillar'd shade, High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...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 men... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 586 pages
...twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman...herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." The areca, or betel-nut tree, (the areca catechu, Linn.) is one of the most beautiful of the palmyra... | |
 | Jefferys TAYLOR - 1835 - 324 pages
...downward twigs take root, and daughters growAbout the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...herds, At loop-holes cut through thickest shade."* Our conversation on these subjects dropped for that evening ; and it was not until we met again at... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-Ire, a pillar'd shadee High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between: There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade : Those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe; » bois impénétrables à la lumière de l'étoile... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1836 - 790 pages
...bended twlge 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...heat. Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds In loop-holes, cut through thickest shade. с The word voice may be equally rendered noise: and since... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...priest of Buddha, or in those of some Indian shepherd, who, retired under the shade of a fig tree, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes, cut through thickest shade. PARADISE LOST, B. ix. Nothing is more natural than the curiosity which leads us to inquire after the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1837 - 352 pages
...ground The bending twigs take root; and daughters grow Aliont the mother tree; a pillared shade, Higli over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft...herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade."' Some specimens of the Indian fig-tree are mentioned as being of immense magnitude. One near Mangee,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 pages
...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About lhe mother-tre, a pillar'd shadee High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade : Those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe; .< bois impénétrables à la lumière de rétoile... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 512 pages
...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tre, a pillar'd shadee High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade : Those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe; » bois impénétrables à la lumière de l'étoile... | |
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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... 
