 The fig-tree — not that kind for fruit renowned, 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...  The Ladies' pocket magazine - Page 2311836Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...bended twigs take root, and daughter! grow ' About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over arch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Indian herdsman shunning heat Shelters in cool, aud tends bis pasturing herds •ft At loopholes cut through thickest shade: those leaves Tliry c':l!i<'r'ii,... | |
 | John Brown - 1811 - 748 pages
...toot, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over arch'd, and echoing walk$ between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturiop herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Per. Last, Book is. L 1100. ! virtue might... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow 1 10"5 About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,...Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and t mis his pasturing hevds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves They gather'd, broad... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade, High over-arched, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,...pasturing herds; At loopholes cut through thickest shades." The common or historical fig, left to itself, is a wide-spreading tree. though it never becomes... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...that in the ground Tbe bended twigs take root, and daughters grovr About (lie mother tree, a pillar'cl shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between*...Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tench his pasturing herds'" At loop-holes cut through thichest shade : those lea They gather'd, broad... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...twigs take root, and daughters grow " About the mother-tree, a pillar' d shade " High ever-arched, and ECHOING WALKS BETWEEN; " There oft the Indian...Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds " At loop Itoles cut through thickest shade." MILTON, PL 9, 1100. This is creation rather than painting,... | |
 | 1830 - 1024 pages
...tree, a pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Ettrick Shepherd,* shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." But, alas ' for the Odontist ! He, the " I >i In-ill- generis Humani," i» dead. The best of all the... | |
 | 1819 - 426 pages
...twigs take root; and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillared shade, High over-arched with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman,...Shelters in cool; and tends his pasturing herds At leafy loop-holes cut through thickest shade. The wood of the common fig tree being porous and spongy,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Malabar or Dccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take E 9i # UKUC leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ; And, with what skill they had, together sew'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...twigs take root, and daughter's grow 1105 About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High overarched, and echoing walks between ; There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in coo), and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut thro' thickest shade. Those leavei They gather'd,... | |
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