 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 312 pages
...ditties nil a summer's day ; \Vhile smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, AVhose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw; when, by the vision led, ( His eyes survcy'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Par. Lost, b, 1. Give me leave here to insert the account... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...bis native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Eaekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Next... | |
 | 1811 - 518 pages
...Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : &c. Paradise Lost, b. I. 446. Newton has very properly... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In am rous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day : While smooth Adonis from his native...; supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." Par. Lost, b. 1, v. 445. It is a curious fact authenticated by various writers, from Lucian down to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...Whole annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Below it is Berytus, now Berut; below it is Sidon, so renowned in sacred and profane history, now Sayda... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...native roek 450 Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Kzekiel saw, when, by the vision led, 43* I His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 328 pages
...Ezek. viii. 14. " And behold there sat women weeping for Tammuz," that is, Adonis. (L.) Hence Milton's Smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded. PL 1. 450. But see Ricard in lac. Herod, ii. 48, &c.* x The Athenians had statues... | |
 | England - 1823 - 746 pages
...lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Fan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughter! with the heat ; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Kzekiel saw, when, by the vision... | |
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Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded... 
