| Caleb Wright - 1851 - 298 sider
...the Gangas to be devoured by alligators. No. 57. 7?¿e Bannian Tree. “Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root; and...shade, High overarched, with echoing walks between.” A LECTURE ON TEE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN INDIA, AND OTNEE PAGAN AND MOHAMMEDAN COUNTRIES. Woman, in her... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 554 sider
...twigs take root, and daughters grow 1105 About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves 1110 They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 578 sider
...twigs take root, and daughters grow 1105 About the mother-tree, a pillar'd shade High over-areh'd, and echoing walks between: There oft the Indian herdsman,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves 111O They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill... | |
| Kew roy. botan. gardens - 1852 - 56 sider
...description of the ancient naturalist almost literally, in the following beautiful 7. Dragon's Blood Tree. " Branching so broad along, that in the ground The bending...; a pillared shade, High over-arched, with echoing walk between, There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool; and tends his pasturing... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 472 sider
...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,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe; And, with what skill... | |
| Laughlan Bellingham Mackinnon - 1852 - 360 sider
...twig» 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,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade.* # Nothing escapes the notice of wise poets. Milton could never have seen the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1852 - 874 sider
...twigs take root, and daughter! grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd sfiade High oner-arched, and ECHOING WALKS BETWEEN : There oft the Indian herdsman,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thichest shade .•''—'• This is creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such,... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1902 - 190 sider
...the fig-tree he describes, which “In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and...grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarcht, and echoing walks between.” Fulness of sound, weight of march, compactness of finish,... | |
| 1901 - 466 sider
...plentiful as they were fifteen years ago. GENERAL GARDENING. THE BANYAN TREE. Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bending twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High over-arched, with echoing walks between. There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning... | |
| John Milton - 1903 - 694 sider
...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,...cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves mo They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill... | |
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