The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And The Warsongs of Tyrtæus

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H. G. Bohn, 1853 - 343 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 76 - 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. Adonis,
Pàgina 123 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf, and the young lion, and the falling together ; and a little child shall lead
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