 ... rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass; for the water was stained to a surprising redness; and as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue; occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red...  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 240by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Eretz Israel - 1844 - 472 pages
...travelling, had discoloured the sea, a great way in, to a reddish hue ; occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of red earth washed into the river by the violence of the rain. The preceding night had been very tempestuous, and the rain almost incessant." As for us we looked... | |
 | Theocritus - 1846 - 316 pages
...had discoloured the sea a great way, into a reddish hue, occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium or red earth washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from the blood of Adonis.' The Prophet Ezekiel beheld the woman at Jerusalem weeping for Tammuz or Adonis.... | |
 | 1846 - 498 pages
...had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue ; occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not from any stain from Adonis's blood." A yet deeper guilt remained to be witnessed ; for, " in the inner... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Bible - 1847 - 660 pages
...had discoloured the sea, a great way, into a reddish hue ; occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not from any stain from Adonis's blood ' (48). A yet deeper guilt remained to be witnessed ; for ' in the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Eretz Israel - 1848 - 596 pages
...had discoloured the sea, a great way, into a reddish hue, occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence...the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood. In an hour and a quarter from this river we passed over the foot of the mountain Climax, where, having-... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence...sequel of the poem. There follows one, at the very end of the first book, which is what the French critics call marvellous, but at the same time probable... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 564 pages
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 | John Relly Beard - 1850 - 656 pages
...hod discoloured the sea, a great way, into a reddish hue ; occasioned, doubtless, by a sort of minium or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not from any stain from Adonis's blood ' (40). A yet deeper guilt remained to be witnessed ; for ' in the... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...spirits transform themselves by contraction or enlargement is introduced with great judgment, to make wsy for several surprising accidents in the sequel of the poem. There follows a passage near the very end of the first book, which is what the French critics call marvellous, but... | |
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