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... Dramatic and Narrative Poems - Seite 273von John Joshua Proby Earl of Carysfort - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Butler - 1843 - 272 Seiten
...the East by Arabia Deserta, on the South by Arabia * The story is told by Milton : Thammuz next came behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The...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... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 Seiten
...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 all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly... | |
| 1909 - 502 Seiten
...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 all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly... | |
| Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 Seiten
...informs the speaker's tone is most fully illustrated by the passage which follows in the catalogue: Thammuz came next behind, Whose 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... | |
| Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 824 Seiten
...describes the cult of Adonis at Byblos, and Milton (Par. Lost i.446-453) sumptuously versifies both texts: ...Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in...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... | |
| Health Research Staff - 1993 - 142 Seiten
...•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 ditties, all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis, from his native rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly... | |
| Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 Seiten
...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... | |
| Alexander B. Bruce - 580 Seiten
...Christian feast to the level of the pagan festival of Adonis, " Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament 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... | |
| John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 Seiten
...that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses, fell 445 To Idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon...lament his fate In amorous ditties all a Summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock 450 Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of Thammuz... | |
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