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 391by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
| Royal Robbins - 1837 - 732 pages
...wound in Lebanon ullur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In am'rous ditties all a KUinnirr's day : While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded." They were also somewhat of an effeminate race, and re... | |
| Royal Robbins - 1837 - 662 pages
...next behind, Whose annual wound in Ijclranon nllurM The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In ani'rous ditties all a summer's day : While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ban purple to the son, gu|>|x>sml with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded." They were also somewhat of... | |
| 1909 - 500 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. 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: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat,... | |
| Anne Ferry - 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...Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to a "Summers day," like the startling adjective... | |
| Anne Ferry - 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 widi blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to a "Summers... | |
| Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...lines. The river of Adona is probably derived from Milton and Spenser. Milton's "smooth Adonis," who "from his native Rock / Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood of Thammuz yearly wounded" (Paradise Lost, I. 450-52), combines the pastoral Adonis, nature-cult hero Thammuz, and dying Orpheus... | |
| Health Research Staff - 1993 - 142 pages
...•ays, Paradise Lost, book i. 445: — Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous...Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat.... | |
| Noam Chomsky - 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...Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the Love-tale Infected Sions daughters with like heat. . . reprinted by Ludwig Deubner, Attische Feste... | |
| 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... | |
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