 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
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...boar in " the mountains, out of which " this stream rises. Something " like this we saw actually come Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's... | |
 | English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...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...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rook Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood f . -Of Thammuz yearly wounded. • • « , '• i... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...romantic, and suitable to what we read among the ancients of the worship which was paid to that idol. Thammuz came next behind, 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 Han purple to the sea,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though largo, BeguiTd by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels, to lament his Täte ín amTous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Kan purple... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though largs, BeguH'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thamtnuz e trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to s Tate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...Massachusetts bay were called Aberginians. See Hutch. $ Tamnuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer's day." P AHD16K LOST, bip ,!,(), like. The oak of the plains could not vie with him in strength ; and in gracefulness... | |
 | Matthew Bridges - Bible - 1825 - 252 pages
...Thammuz, who was the same with Adonis, was every year lamented, as our great poet has well described : — Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.* There were, moreover, delicious gardens entitled Paradisi, and consecrated to the .rites of Eden or... | |
 | Benjamin Heath Malkin - Classical philology - 1825 - 688 pages
...rite, in Paradise Lost, book i. : — Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz eame eend Sometimes to eall a minister my friend. I was...pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; ( 'an roek Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ; the love-tale Infeeted... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...annual wound, in Lebanon, allured The Syrian damsels to deplore his fate In woeful ditties, all the summer's day : While smooth Adonis, from his native...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. We know of no medicinal virtues which can be attributed to the waters of St. Winefred's well beyond... | |
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