 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...neit 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...suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love talc Infected Sion's daughters with like heat. Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Bible - 1837 - 882 pages
...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, suffused with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded. The love tale •Chap. ix. 9. tChap. v. 13; xvi. 42;... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat,... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 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 - Poetry - 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 - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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...suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the Love-tale Infected Sions daughters with like heat. . . reprinted by Ludwig Deubner, Attische Feste... | |
 | Health Research Staff - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1993 - 142 pages
...Tammuz 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 Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat.... | |
 | 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... 
