...much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand is on the sea-shore.' Whose annual wound in Lehanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous...summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with hlood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's...

...uxorious king, whose heart, though large Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat , Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel...

...meadows and waters'. 1 To this Milton alluded in his Paradise Lost, i. 450, in dependence on Lucian: Smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the...sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. them, and then to the belief that such waters bestowed 'blessing' — divine energy which effected...

...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...

...Mtlten, en su Paradise Lcst (1667): Thammuz carne next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a Summers day, While smooth Adonis from his native Rock Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood Of...

...Moloch, Ourchad, Adonis, Tammuz; of the last, Milton •ays, Paradise Lost, book i. 445: — Tammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured...rock, Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Tammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Zion's daughters with like heat. These mournful ditties...

...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....

...-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...supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded : the love-tale Infectod Sion's danghters with like heat, Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel...

...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 Adonis0 from his native rock 0 cedarn: of cedar trees. ° Nard (spikenard) and cassia...

...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 damsels...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...