 | 1833 - 540 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allured The Hyrian damaels to lament his fate In amuroui ditties all a summer*! day. While smooth Adonis, from his native rock. Ran...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded.' Paraditt Lett, I 44«. The phenomenon has been observed by modern travellers, and is attributed to... | |
 | Royal Robbins - World geography - 1833 - 676 pages
...miserable idolaters. An instance of their worship is thus described by the poet before named. ' Tammuz came 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,... | |
 | George Raymond Beasley-Murray - Religion - 1962 - 440 pages
...meadows and waters'. 1 To this Milton alluded in his Paradise Lost, i. 450, in dependence on Lucian: Smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. them, and then to the belief that such waters bestowed 'blessing' — divine energy which effected... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...informs the speaker's tone is most fully illustrated by the passage which follows in the catalogue: Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to... | |
 | Health Research Staff - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 142 pages
...•ays, Paradise Lost, book i. 445: — Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat. These mournful ditties... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 824 pages
...describes the cult of Adonis at Byblos, and Milton (Par. Lost i.446-453) sumptuously versifies both texts: ...Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in...allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1996 - 728 pages
...-wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament bis fate In amorous ditties all a summer's daj ; While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple...— supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded : the love-tale Infectod Sion's danghters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...the fallen angels, now become devils. 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, 450 While smooth Adonis0 from his native rock 0 cedarn: of cedar trees. ° Nard (spikenard) and cassia... | |
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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... 
