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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... "
Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote ... - Page 146
by Hugh Murray - 1833
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...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...herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those IP ves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian tarre, nil And with what skill they hdd, together sow'd. To...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade 1 106 High o'er-arch'd, and echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his past' ring herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves m0 They gather'd, broad as...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade II" High overarch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft...Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holee cut through thickest shade : Those ki« They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, OK And...
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Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient ..., Volume 3

Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 268 pages
...ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." The whole of this relation, of the authenticity of which I am assured from the high authority of Mr....
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An Account of a Voyage to India, China &c. in His Majesty's Ship Caroline ...

James Johnson - China - 1806 - 154 pages
...mines. The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd sliade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut thro' thickest shade." GOtCONDA MINES. The following account of the mode of obtaining these precious...
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Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical ...

Thomas Maurice - India - 1806 - 262 pages
...mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian ierdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade." The whole of this relation, of the authenticity of which I am assured from the high authority of Mr....
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A Description of Ceylon, Containing an Account of the Country ..., Volume 1

James Cordiner - Cingalese - 1807 - 516 pages
...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...those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill they had, together sow'd, To gird their waste." The.Ficus RELIGIOSA, '* foliis...
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The Oriental Voyager: Or, Descriptive Sketches and Cursory Remarks, on a ...

James Johnson - Voyages and travels - 1807 - 430 pages
...ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between ; There oft...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut thro' thickest shade." From Kistna point the land turns a few miles to the northward, and finishes...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...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 5helters in cool, anil tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade : those leaves...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 4

English literature - 1808 - 742 pages
...bended 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...pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. 9*7] [950 Sir Walter Raleigh thought he had seen many Banvan trees in America, but his description...
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