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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 Spectator: no. 252-321; Dec. 19, 1711-Mar. 8, 1712 - Page 266
edited by - 1898
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...next behind, Whoie annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In am'roui - Kan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 13

England - 1823 - 762 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...damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8

British essayists - 1823 - 820 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...Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties ail a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 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'g daughters with like heat,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 13

Scotland - 1823 - 758 pages
...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 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thanimuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with the heat ; Whose wanton passions...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Beguiled hy fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next hehind, Whose aunual wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; i -- . • ' While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with hlood...
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An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of Greece

Thomas Stackhouse - Greece - 1824 - 316 pages
...in the idolatrous anniversary of the death of Tlummuz or Adonis; which Milton thus notices : Tkummuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon, allured...supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions, in the sacred porch, Ezekiel...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...nupsisse proditum est*" The erudition of Milton has made us familiar with these rites of Thammuz : Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Lucian, in a style of exquisite irony, in the antiquated Ionic dialect well befitting his assumed gravity...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...nupsisse proditum est*" The erudition of Milton has made us familiar with these rites of Thammuz : . ..... Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rook Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood f . -Of Thammuz yearly wounded. • • « , '• i...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...this stream rises. Something " like this we saw actually come Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd 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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