| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. 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... | |
| 1836 - 558 pages
...fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. 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,... | |
| 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 purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded ... (I, 446-452) The logically superfluous allusion to a "Summers day," like... | |
| 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 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 - 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... | |
| 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
...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 with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the Love-tale Infected Sions daughters with like heat. . . reprinted by Ludwig... | |
| 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... | |
| Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...the fallen angels, now become devils. 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, 450 While smooth Adonis0 from his native rock 0 cedarn: of cedar trees. ° Nard (spikenard) and cassia... | |
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