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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 Hannah More - Page 391
by Hannah More - 1830
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lehanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...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.talc Infected Sion's...
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The British Essayists, Volume 10

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 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...sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 pages
...paper in folio. The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In am'rous ditties all a summer's day; AVhile smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the...sea, suppos'd 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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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 20

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 pages
...some fine melodious lines on thil subject. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Par. Lost, b, 1. Give me leave here to insert the account given by the late Mr. Maundie! of this ancient...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 20

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 796 pages
...some fine melodious lines on tliii subject. Thammnz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...rock. Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammnz yearly wounded. Par. Lost. b. 1. Give me leave here to insert the account given by the late...
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Herculanensia; Or Archeological and Philological Dissertations, Containing a ...

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...Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. In the hymn to Apollo, we have the following verse :...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...Beguil'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rook Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...The Syrian damsel* to lament his fate, Ii> ain'rous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Aviouis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 306 pages
...in the first publication of tbi! paper in folio. The Syrian damsels to lament liii fate, In am'rous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Han purple to the sea> suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 1

1811 - 518 pages
...real cause of his death be veiled in fable : . Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : &c. Paradise Lost, b. I. 446. Newton has very properly illustrated this passage by the account which...
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