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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 Complete Poems of John Milton: Written in English; with Introduction ... - Page 101
by John Milton - 1909 - 463 pages
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Herculanensia; :or Archeological and Philological Dissertations, Containing ...

Sir William Drummond, Robert Walpole - Campania (Italy) - 1810 - 246 pages
...or the god who represented the sun, to receive, made an important part of their mythology: . Thammuz came next behind; Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. ''-.v On the Names of Places in the Campania FeliiIn 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 - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...ditties all a 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...porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the captive...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale...sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when by the vision led His eyes survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah — The reader will pardon me if I insert as a...
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The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...Scripture. See Ezck. viil, 14. So Milton; " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...; supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded." Par. Lost, b. 1, v. 445. It is a curious fact authenticated by various writers, from Lucian down to...
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A Sketch of Modern and Ancient Geography

Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...blood.* * The story i> told by Milton : Thammuz came next behind, Whole annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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 history, now Sayda...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48

England - 1840 - 876 pages
...of which the licentious and idolatrous perversions had infected even the house of Juduh :_ " Tbammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...supposed 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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A sketch of modern and antient geography

Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...blood.* » The story is told by Milton : Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded.— —Par. Lori, Baot I. fielow it is Berytus, now Berut ; below it is Sidon, so renowned in sacred and...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 20

Classical philology - 1819 - 572 pages
...northern. It is thus beautifully alluded to by Milton, in his catalogue of the fallen spirits; Thammuz came next behind Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milt. Par. Lost. Book 1 . v. 446. The second and third Idyllia of Bion are airy and light, but fantastic...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...subject with Milton's epic strain : -Tbammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound, in Lebanon, allured BB The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thaiumuz yearly wounded. PAR. LOST, bi 1. 445. P. 67. 1, 24. crowd of your cronies ! Cronies — a...
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