Myrrha

Madame Ristori was not allowed to appear in the tragedy of "Myrrha," and the dramas which French companies of players visiting this country from time to time have designed to produce, have been severely dealt with, the Examiner forgetting, apparently, that such works should rather be judged by a foreign than a native standard of "good manners and decorum."

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856

Kean, Mrs. Charles (Miss Ellen Tree), iv. 78; as "Myrrha" in

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Fanny Ensor "Myrrha;" and June 26-July 27, 1877, at the Royal Alexandra

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Tree, Miss Ellen (afterwards Mrs. Charles Kean), iv. 78; as "Myrrha" in

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Ensor, Miss Fanny, as "Myrrha" in _Sardanapalus_, v. 2

The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

A girl named Myrrha, who turned away all suitors, was visited with an unnatural lust for her own father.

Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 4) 2008

Lot lay with his daughters in his drink, as Cyneras with Myrrha, — [6120] quid enim Venus ebria curat?

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Kinyras and Myrrha has some resemblance to the incest of Lot with his daughters; and the adventure of Philemon and Baucis is somewhat similar to the case of the two angels who appeared to Lot and his wife.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

'Tis the last and common refuge to use an assistant, such as that Catanean Philippa was to Joan Queen of Naples, a [5207] bawd's help, an old woman in the business, as [5208] Myrrha did when she doted on Cyniras, and could not compass her desire, the old jade her nurse was ready at a pinch, dic inquit, opemque me sine ferre tibi — et in hac mea

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Myrrha, the daughter of Cinarus; Pythis from Pythis; Cinara, which is the artichoke, from one of that name; Narcissus, with Saffron,

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002