| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...read among the ancients of the worship which was paid to that idol. -Thammuz came next behind, Wlio'-e 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,... | |
| Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 510 pages
...It is a circumstance taken notice of by many authors, and most pathetically described by Milton. 15 Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea; suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. It is said that the Eridanus was so called first by... | |
| Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 530 pages
...It is a circumstance taken notice of by many authors, and most pathetically described by Milton. 11 Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea; suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. It is said that the Eridanus was so called first by... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lehanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...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.talc Infected Sion's... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 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's daughters with like heat,... | |
| Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - 526 pages
...who lamented the " death of 'Adon and Osiris."— —Analysis, vol. ip 380. — Hence our incomilton: Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In am'rous tlitties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native root Ran purple to the sea,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...for Adonis. Univcrs. Hist .vol. ii. Milton has some fine melodious lines on tliii subject. Thammnz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd...Adonis, from his native rock. Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammnz yearly wounded. Par. Lost. b. 1. Give me leave here to insert the account... | |
| William Drummond, Robert Walpole - 1810 - 236 pages
...important part of their mythology: 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. In the hymn to Apollo, we have the following verse : .} afA euoi, xai The io-p&an was evidently a hymn... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd 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 rook Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though Begnil'd by fair idolatresses, fell [large, To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from bis native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale... | |
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