 | William Empson - Country life in literature - 1950 - 312 pages
...chariot of triumph. (When the cart is driven away he is left hanging.) And we cry, There dies an Adonis! —Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous duties all a summer's day— —Whose tragic sacrifice, every spring, like Christ, makes the crops... | |
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...phenomena of these heavenly bodies have been arrayed in a pa 1 « pable and living shape. " Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...summer's day : While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tlmmmuz yearly wounded : the love tale Infected Sion's... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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...Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel¿ saw, when, by... | |
 | David Lyle Jeffrey - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1000 pages
...Milton in Paradise Lost (1.446-57): Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties...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 Infected Sion's... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...Lost Milton includes Thammuz/Adonis in his catalogue of the fallen angels, now become devils. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, 450 While smooth Adonis° from his native rock 0 cedarn: of cedar trees. 0 Nard (spikenard) and cassia... | |
 | Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
...angels. now become devils. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syilan damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, 450 While smooth Adoni? from his native rock ¿ cedar. ofcedar tiers. ¿ N¿-d (¿pik¿n¿1) ¿d cmiv... | |
 | Alexander B. Bruce - Religion - 580 pages
...think of the matter were to degrade our Christian feast to the level of the pagan festival of Adonis, “Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian...his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day.” Or was it the foul wrong and shameful indignity done to the Son of God by the wicked men who crucified... | |
 | Mark S. Smith - Bibles - 2001 - 345 pages
...character, more revealed in function. The Life and Death of Baal While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, 450-52 Chapter 5 describes the characteristics expected of deities... | |
 | Moses Maimonides, James Townley - Commandments (Judaism) - 2001 - 494 pages
...next 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 his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, suffused with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. The love tale Infected Sion's... | |
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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 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the... 
