 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...  A sketch of modern and antient geography - Page 216by Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818Full view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...subject with Milton's epic strain : -Tbammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound, in Lebanon, allured BB The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thaiumuz yearly wounded. PAR. LOST, bi 1. 445. P. 67. 1, 24. crowd of your cronies ! Cronies — a... | |
 | Plutarch - 1822 - 378 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 loc. Herod, ii. 48. &c.* 50 The Athenians had... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...the ancients of the worship which was paid to tlia idol : * — — - Thmmmuz came next behind, Whoie ."P % am'roui ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple to the sea,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties ail a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...in the first publication of this paper in folio. 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'g daughters with like heat,... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 758 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thanimuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with the heat ; Whose wanton passions... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next hehind, Whose aunual wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; i -- . • ' While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with hlood... | |
 | England - 1823 - 762 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of... | |
 | English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...of Milton has made us familiar with these rites of Thammuz : Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Lucian, in a style of exquisite irony, in the antiquated Ionic dialect well befitting his assumed gravity... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - Greece - 1824 - 316 pages
...Adonis; which Milton thus notices : Tkummuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon, allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...sea; supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions, in the sacred porch,... | |
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