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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 - Page 208
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

1824 - 486 pages
...Milton has made us familiar with these rites of 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 rook Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood f . -Of Thammuz yearly wounded. • • « , '• i...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 6

1824 - 294 pages
...romantic, 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 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 Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...that uxorious king, whose heart, though largo, BeguiTd by fair idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels, to lament his Täte ín amTous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Kan purple...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though largs, BeguH'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thamtnuz e trifling still than they. " And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to s Tate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to...
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The Atlantic Magazine, Volume 1

1824 - 494 pages
...Massachusetts bay were called Aberginians. See Hutch. $ Tamnuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In amorous ditties all a summer's day." P AHD16K LOST, bip ,!,(), like. The oak of the plains could not vie with him in strength ; and in gracefulness...
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The Testimony of Profane Antiquity to the Account Given by Moses of Paradise ...

Matthew Bridges - 1825 - 252 pages
...Thammuz, who was the same with Adonis, was every year lamented, as our great poet has well described : — 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.* There were, moreover, delicious gardens entitled Paradisi,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguil'd by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz eame eend Sometimes to eall a minister my friend. I was...pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers ; ( 'an roek Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ; the love-tale Infeeted...
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Classical Disquisitions and Curiosities: Critical and Historical

Benjamin Heath Malkin - 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...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...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

1825 - 392 pages
...annual wound, in Lebanon, allured The Syrian damsels to deplore his fate In woeful ditties, all the summer's day : While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. We know of no medicinal virtues which can be attributed...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 11

1825 - 390 pages
...annual wound, in Lebanon, allured The Syrian damsels to deplore his fate In woeful ditties, all the summer's day : While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. We know of no medicinal virtues which can be attributed...
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