 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...  An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of Greece - Side 231av Thomas Stackhouse - 1824 - 288 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 306 sider
...in the first publication of tbi! paper in folio. The Syrian damsels to lament liii fate, In am'rous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Han purple to the sea> suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's... | |
 | 1810 - 482 sider
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols fnul Thnmmuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allui'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer'* day; While smooth Adonis from hid native rock Ran purple to the sea, etuppoy'd with blood... | |
 | 1811 - 518 sider
...of his death be veiled in fable : . Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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... | |
 | 1811 - 508 sider
...cause of his death be veiled in :" - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thainmui: yearly wounded : &c. Paradise Lost, b. I. 446.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 sider
...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 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 sider
...Scripture. See Ezck. viil, 14. So Milton; " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...; 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 sider
...blood.* * The story i> told by Milton : Thammuz came next behind, Whole annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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 sider
...idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native roek 450 Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 1813 - 448 sider
...Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs." came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day." -"Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the captive ark Maim'd his brute image his name, sea-monster,... | |
 | Plutarch - 1816 - 328 sider
...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... | |
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