 | 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... | |
 | William Drummond, Robert Walpole - 1810 - 236 pages
...important part of their mythology: Thammuz came next behind; Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. In the hymn to Apollo, we... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 516 pages
...romantic, 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 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,... | |
 | 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...summer's day : While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea ; supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." Par. Lost, b. 1, v. 445.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Below it is Berytus, now Berut; below it is Sidon,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...By that uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran nurp'« to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Tnammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected... | |
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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... 
