 | 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... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols fnul Thnmmuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allui'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer'* day; While smooth Adonis from hid native rock Ran purple to the sea, etuppoy'd with blood... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 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 - 518 pages
...an annual commemoration after his decease, though the real cause of his death be veiled in fable : . Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...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... | |
 | 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. I. 446.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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...Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea ; supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." Par. Lost, b. 1, v. 445. It is a curious fact authenticated... | |
 | 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...Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Below it is Berytus, now Berut; below it is Sidon, so renowned in sacred and profane... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - 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,... | |
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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... 
