 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood." AUiion. Thammuz was the god of the Syrians, the same with... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not " by any stain from Adonis's blood.'1 . The passage in the catalogue, explaining the manner... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood." The passage in the catalogue, explaining the maniier how... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not by any stain from Adoiiis's blood.' The passage in the catalogue, explaining the manner how... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of mininm, or red earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood.' The passage in the catalogue, explaining the manner how... | |
 | Greek literature - 1813 - 442 pages
...in travelling) had tlinciduiin.d the sea a great way, into a red'ish 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 women at Jerusalem weeping... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood.' The passage in the catalogue, explaining the manner how... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless nswer to each and not by any stain from Adonis's blood. The passage Sn the catalogue, explaining the manner how spirits... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 396 pages
...observed in traveling) 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 women at Jerusalem weeping... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...observed in 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 of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood,' The passage in the catalogue, explaining the manner how... | |
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... 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... 
