| Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...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...supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel... | |
| George Raymond Beasley-Murray - Religion - 1962 - 440 pages
...meadows and waters'. 1 To this Milton alluded in his Paradise Lost, i. 450, in dependence on Lucian: Smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. them, and then to the belief that such waters bestowed 'blessing' — divine energy which effected... | |
| Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to... | |
| Health Research Staff - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 142 pages
...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 Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat. These mournful ditties... | |
| Noam Chomsky - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 824 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers 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 Sions daughters with like heat.... | |
| Robert Taylor - 1996 - 728 pages
...-wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament bis fate In amorous ditties all a summer's daj ; While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple...supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded : the love-tale Infectod Sion's danghters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel... | |
| Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...sinless body. 0 Youth and Joy: rather than Pleasure, as in Spenser. 0 smooth Adonis: ie the River Adonis. Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch 455 Ezekiel... | |
| Mark S. Smith - Religion - 2001 - 346 pages
...resulted in a deity more concealed in character, more revealed in function. The Life and Death of Baal While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, 450-52 Chapter 5 describes the characteristics expected of deities... | |
| Moses Maimonides, James Townley - Commandments (Judaism) - 2001 - 494 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, suffused with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat... | |
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