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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... "
The Testimony of Profane Antiquity to the Account Given by Moses of Paradise ... - Page 49
by Matthew Bridges - 1825 - 232 pages
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Dramatic and Narrative Poems, Volume 2

John Joshua Proby Earl of Carysfort - 1810 - 352 pages
...Next these the realms where once, with generous pride, The Pontic king triumphant Rome defied : » Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day. MILTON'I PA*. LOST. And where, in brightest hues of nature drest, Circassia's b beauties bind the swelling...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...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 damsel* to lament his fate, Ii> ain'rous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Aviouis from his...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...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...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 306 pages
...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...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 1

1811 - 518 pages
...an annual commemoration after his decease, though the real cause of his death be veiled in fable : . 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 : &c. Paradise Lost, b. I. 446. Newton has very properly...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 1

1811 - 508 pages
...and an annual commemoration after his decease, though the real cause of his death be veiled in :" - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...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....
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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....
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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...once a year. Adonis is the same as Thamus or Thammuz, of Scripture. See Ezck. viil, 14. So Milton; " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...; 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...
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A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography

Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...were fabled to flow with his blood.* * The story i> told by Milton : Thammuz came next behind, Whole annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels...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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd 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 roek 450 Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected...
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