| English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...quam Adonidi nupsisse proditum est*" The erudition of 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 all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rook Ran purple to... | |
| Sir William Drummond - History, Ancient - 1826 - 504 pages
...the death of Adonis : nor was Adonis any other than a personification of the Sun, and the same with Thammuz, 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... | |
| Christian Gleaner - Gift books - 1844 - 342 pages
...view, as having seduced the race of Israel to forsake their " living strength." Behind these comes Thammuz, " 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... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - Sermons, English - 1846 - 640 pages
...open, and serve for huts for shepherds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz— " 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... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 480 pages
...open, and serve for huts for shepherds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz — " 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 rook, Ran purple... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...From the mountains of the leopards." herds, or dens for wild beasts. And, lastly, we have the story of Thammuz — " 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... | |
| j.d.b. be bow - 1853 - 658 pages
...lauzhed at by another." Two things distinguished the religion of China, taken as a whole, from the taith of most other pagan nations that now exist or have...as among the Assyrians ;* no weeping for Thammuz, " Who« annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament hie fate In am'roUH ditties all... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...annually commemorated. Milton alludes to this mourning for Adonis, whom he calls by the Syrian appellation Thammuz.'] 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... | |
| Philip Smith - 1871 - 620 pages
...which gave the river its name of Adonis (Nahr Ibrahim), and as the seat of the elemental worship of Thammuz — " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties alt a gummer'g day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Kan purple .to... | |
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