 | 1833 - 540 pages
...annual wound in Lebanon allured The Hyrian damaels to lament his fate In amuroui ditties all a summer*! day. While smooth Adonis, from his native rock. Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded.' Paraditt Lett, I 44«. The phenomenon has been observed... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 508 pages
...*,she made a friend : THE BLEEDING ROCK: OR, THE METAMORPHOSIS or A NYMPH INTO STONE. The annual wound allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In...sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. — MILTOM. Devouring sorrow marks her for his prey, And, slow and certain, mines his silent way. Yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...idolatresses, fell 445 To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allnr'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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-tale Infected Sion's... | |
 | 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
...informs the speaker's tone is most fully illustrated by the passage which follows in the catalogue: Thammuz came next behind, Whose 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... | |
 | 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
...describes the cult of Adonis at Byblos, and Milton (Par. Lost i.446-453) sumptuously versifies both texts: ...Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in...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... | |
 | 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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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... 
