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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 51
by Matthew Bridges - 1825 - 232 pages
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Lectures on Scripture Facts

William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...crescent horns; To whose bright image nightly, by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs." came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd...lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day." -"Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the captive ark Maim'd his brute image his name, sea-monster,...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2

Plutarch - Greece - 1816 - 328 pages
...Ezek. viii. 14. " And behold there sat women weeping for Tammuz," that is, Adonis. (L.) Hence Milton's Smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded. PL 1. 450. But see Ricard in lac. Herod, ii. 48, &c.* x The Athenians had statues...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48

England - 1840 - 876 pages
...infected even the house of Juduh :_ " Tbammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat ; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 13

England - 1823 - 746 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols fouL Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Fan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of...
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A sketch of modern and antient geography

Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...the mountains of Libanus, and were fabled to flow with his blood.* » The story is told by Milton : Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.— —Par. Lori, Baot I. fielow it is Berytus, now Berut ; below it is Sidon, so renowned in sacred and...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 20

Classical philology - 1819 - 572 pages
...his catalogue of the fallen spirits; 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 : The love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...in the first publication of th is paper in folio. The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In ain'rons ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Han purple to the sea, snppos'd with blood Of Thamrnuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thommuz rous breathes : flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment,...both life and seme, Fancy and understanding ; whenc suppos'd with blood Of Tnammuz yearly wounded : the love-tata Infected Son's daughters with like heat...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 11

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...annual wound, in Lebanon, allured The Syrian damsels to deplore his fate In woeful ditties, all the summer's day: While smooth Adonis, from his native...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. We know of no medicinal virtues which can be attributed to the waters of St. Winefred's well beyond...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...idolatresses, fell 44i To idols foul. Thammuzcame next behind, Whose annual wound ia Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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-tale Infected Sion's...
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