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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 Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Rowe's Lucan ... - Page 208
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Sketch of Modern and Antient Geography for Schools

Samuel Butler - 1825 - 398 pages
...Petraea, and on the West by the Mediterranean, called * The story is told by Milton : . Thammuz next came behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The...summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Par. Lost, Book I. R 3 in...
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Classical Disquisitions and Curiosities: Critical and Historical

Benjamin Heath Malkin - Classical philology - 1825 - 688 pages
...rite, in Paradise Lost, book i.:— 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: the love-tale Infected Sion's...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian dajnsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple t$ the sea, supposed with blood Of Thamrawz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 688 pages
...444. whose heart, though large,] I. Kings iv. 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 rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. 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 450 Kan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected...
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Origines: Phoenicia. Arabia. 1826

Sir William Drummond - History, Ancient - 1826 - 504 pages
...than a personification of the Sun, and the same with Thammuz, 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. Extract of a letter from Sir William Gell to the Rt. Hon. Sir W. Drummond....
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The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life, Volume 1

Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 542 pages
...1'lin. book xxxv. THE BLEEDING ROCK : OR, THE METAMORPHOSIS OF A NYMPH INTO STONBs -The annual wound allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thaminuz yearly wounded. — Millón. WHERE beauteous...
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The reasons of the law of Moses, from the 'More nevochim', with notes ...

Moses Maimonides, James Townley - Commandments (Judaism) - 1827 - 474 pages
...of joy. — Milton has wrought up the story of Adonis with great effect in the following lines ; — -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, Han purple to the sea,...
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The new Pantheon, or, An introduction to the mythology of the ancients

William Jillard Hort - 1827 - 312 pages
...horns: To whose bright image, nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs. • Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound, in Lebanon, allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate. • Next, came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the captive ark Maim'd his brute image ; head and hands...
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Blair's Outlines of Ancient History: On a New Plan, Embracing Biographical ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Chronology, Historical - 1827 - 418 pages
...miserable idolaters. An instance of their worship is thus described by the poet before named. " Tam'muz 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 Ado'nis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea,...
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