 | Hannah More - 1834 - 508 pages
...a friend : THE BLEEDING ROCK: OR, THE METAMORPHOSIS or A NYMPH INTO STONE. The annual wound allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. — MILTOM. Devouring sorrow marks her for his prey,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allnr'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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Classical geography - 1835 - 272 pages
...Great Sea. It will be the most convenient to invert The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amourou9 ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Par. Lott, Book I. 166 the order of time, and first describe it as it existed in the time of our Saviour,... | |
 | 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
...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
...Moloch, Ourchad, Adonis, Tammuz; of the last, Milton •ays, Paradise Lost, book i. 445: — Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...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
...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; the Love-tale Infected Sions daughters with like heat.... | |
 | 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 Ezekiel... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...Paradise Lost Milton includes Thammuz/Adonis in his catalogue of the fallen angels, now become devils. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...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... 
