| Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 546 pages
...bchind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon ullurYI The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In am'rous dittics all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his...rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded."t The remains of these sombre festivals are still to be found in the customs... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...next behind, \Vhose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ikin suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat;... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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...rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions... | |
| 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... | |
| 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
...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,...sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat. These mournful ditties for Tammuz or Adonis... | |
| 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 to the sea — supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded : the love-tale Infectod Sion's danghters with like heat, Whose wanton passions... | |
| Moses Maimonides, James Townley - Commandments (Judaism) - 2001 - 494 pages
...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...Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, suffused with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat... | |
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