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" 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... "
Geography: Or, First Division of "The English Encyclopædia" - Page 71
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - 1850 - 302 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thamnmz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...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...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell ' ^ To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, _ , Whose annual wound, in Lebanon, allured - — The...summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock, Kan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected...
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History of the Persians

Edward Farr - Iran - 1850 - 346 pages
...declared to be a great abomination. Next he beheld the Phenician idolatry, in women weeping for Tammuz, " 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." — MILTON. This is declared...
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Olympus and its inhabitants: a narrative sketch of the classical mythology ...

Agnes Smith (writer on mythology.) - Mythology, Classical - 1851 - 346 pages
...by renewing its discoloratious." Milton alludes to these circumstances in the following lines : — "Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ban purple to the sea, supposed with blood OfTfmmmuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's...
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A sketch of modern and antient geography

Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1851 - 474 pages
...Deserta, on the south by Arabia Petrsea, and on the west * The story is told by Milton : Thammuz next came behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Par. Lost, Book I. by the...
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Paradise Lost

John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...I;' e'niled by fair Idolatresses, fell «g Tri idols foul. Thammuz" eame next behind, Whose aunual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament...summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native reek oo Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infeeted...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 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 Sion's...
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A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 1

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 508 pages
...natives to the blood flowing from the wound of Adonis — a belief finely alluded to by Milton — Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ean purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.^5) Coral was supposed to...
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Prophets, continued and concluded

John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1852 - 548 pages
...viii. 14-18. — " There sat women, weeping for Thammuz " (14) ; the Syrian Adonis. " Thammuz came nest behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple to the aea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love-tale Infected Zion's...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd 5 K.U .]T G T K P S_V9WoW;W Q R %xQ T TwW V Q-WuR H @ L7W F V M PyWzW T W 8 D M1W 7 rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected...
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