| Theocritus - 1846 - 316 pages
...subject with Milton's epic strain : " ' 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, Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.' — Par. Lost, B. i. 1.... | |
| William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large. Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind. Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected... | |
| Karl Otfried Müller - Greek literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...hope and confidence as well as of • Beautifully described in the well-known verses of Milton : " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...amorous ditties, all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis i'rom his native rock Ran purple to th« sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded/'— Paradise... | |
| Hannah More - 1847 - 414 pages
...— Plin. book xxxv. THE BLEEDING ROCK; OB, THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A NYMPH INTO STONE. The annual wound allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Toammuz yearly wounded.— Milton. WHERE beauteous... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love talo Infected... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...mountains of the leopards." herds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...summer's day : While smooth Adonis, from his native rock. Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." These testimonies show... | |
| John Relly Beard - Bible - 1848 - 652 pages
...' Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament hie 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 : the love-tale Infected... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 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...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thummuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected... | |
| David Purdie Thomson - Meteorology - 1849 - 516 pages
...to the celebrity of Byblus as a chief seat of the polluted worship of Venus and Adonis.1 " Thammnz came next behind. Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...ditties, all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis, from its' native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded." Paradise... | |
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