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" That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in... "
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Toxophilus

Roger Ascham - Archery - 1868 - 372 pages
...BOOK L 55 ' the Feaft of Adonis, is of a bloody Colour; which the ' Heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of ' Sympathy in the River for the Death...Boar in the Mountains, out of ' which this Stream rifes. Something like this we law ' actually come to pafs : for the Water was ilain'd to ' a furprifmg...
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Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From ʻThe Spectatorʼ. 31 December, 1711 ...

Joseph Addison - 1868 - 154 pages
...p. 43. ' the Feaft of Adonis, is of a bloody Colour; which the ' Heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of ' Sympathy in the River for the Death...Boar in the Mountains, out of ' which this Stream rifes. Something like this we faw ' actually come to pafs ; for the Water was ftain'd to ' a furprifmg...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's ...

Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pages
...especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death...hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or »ed earth, washed into the river by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood."...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...especially 10 about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody color ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death...stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come 15 to pass, for the water was stained to a surprising redness, and, as we observed in traveling, had...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come 15 to pass, for the water was stained to a surprising redness, and, as we observed in traveling, had discolored the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of...
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 236 pages
...wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come 15 to pass, for the water was stained to a surprising redness, and, as we observed in traveling, had discolored the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of...
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Selections from the Works of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the 1 5 death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in...and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured 20 the sea a great way into a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless by a sort of minium, or red earth,...
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The Warner Library, Volume 3

Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 712 pages
...especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody color, which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death...killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which the stream issues. Something like this we saw actually come to pass ; for the water was stained to...
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Eastern Mediterranean Lands: Twenty Years of Life, Sport, and Travel

Percy Hugh Hamon Massy - Middle East - 1928 - 316 pages
...stream, known in classical times as the River of Adonis, runs blood-red, tradition says in memory of the death of Adonis who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains near by and was mourned by the Syrian Venus. This peculiarity is still observed after heavy rains,...
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Early Travels in Palestine

Thomas Wright - Travel - 2003 - 566 pages
...especially ahout the feast of Adonis, is of a hloody colour, which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed hy a wild hoar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually...
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