 First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and...  The Friend, Conducted by S.T. Coleridge, No - Page 37publié par - 1863Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...holy rit' s and solemn feasts profaned, 3»i And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears, ' Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard,that passed through... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned, 390 And with their darkness durst affront his light. First MOLOCH, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 792 pages
...to other deities at Carthage. Hence he received that title, too well known to the Israelites, of " MOLOCH, horrid KING, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1865 - 562 pages
...and goodness, necessarily prepares the imagination for the supremacy of cunning with malignity. Folly and vice have their appropriate religions, as well...some way or other fools will dance round the golden ealf, and wicked men beat their timbrels and kettle-drams to, — — Moloch, horrid king, besmeared... | |
 | Increase Niles Tarbox - 1865 - 400 pages
...things His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned, And with their darkness durst affront bis light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through... | |
 | William McClure Thomson - 1865 - 270 pages
...and the shouts of the frenzied worshippers. Milton thus sings indignant at these ' abominations : ' ' Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with bloo,d Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through... | |
 | Josias Leslie Porter - 1865 - 418 pages
...Solomon's; but afterwards desecrated by lust, and defiled by the offerings of Baal and the fires of . i " Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears." It finally became so notorious for its abominations that it was regarded as the "very type of hell;"... | |
 | 1865 - 688 pages
...See, for example, the Orthodox Formularies of New England Calvinism, of a half a Century ago, grim as Moloch, — "horrid king, besmeared with blood, Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears," bristling all over with Divine Sovereignty ; and then study the writings of such a man as the elder... | |
 | 1909 - 386 pages
...Thaumas (Hesiod, Theog. 235, etc.; Ovid, Met. 12. 303) and Thammuz. 205. Moloch. Cf. PL 1. 392-6: First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through... | |
 | John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 pages
...imitation ? (2) Quote the passages parallel to ' Say, muse, their names'; ' who first, who last.' First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard,, that passed through... | |
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