 First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worship! in Rabba and...  Oeuvres - Page 170by Jacques Delille - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...things His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd, 390 And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of...Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that pass'd thro' fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 396 Worshipp'd in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...commence with Milton. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd thro* fire To his grim idol. MILTON. •ilijjfiM 'I in>'» ." '.—Moloch in the van, , Mail'd at all... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents'tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'U through fire Worshipp'd in Rabba and her watry plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of... | |
 | John Whitaker - Church buildings - 1804 - 366 pages
...nearly, and, perhaps, wholly, as was ; • Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrilice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums...unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Yet, to shcwliow tenderly the spirits of authors feel at present for the honour of heathenism, let... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...hang one jingling padlock on the mind: known, IMITATIONS. *i 142- Dropping with infant's blood, &r.] " First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears." Milton. THE DUNCIAD. tSl Lost, lost too soon in yonder house or hall. There truant Wyndham every muse... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...design'd, |hang one jingling padlock on the mind: IMITATIONS. opping with infants' blood, &c.] ret Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears." Mitten. -the Samian letter.] The letter Y, used by Fyttas an emblem of the different roads of virtue... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...things His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront bis light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of...Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard,that pass'd through lire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...feasts prophan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear' d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears ;...Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the .-Ammonite Worshipt in... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 436 pages
...which, according to the learned, signifies a drum: and God himself gives it this name to represent hell. Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human...unheard that pass'd through fire To his grim idol, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom ; Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd the type... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...whoring with their own inventions.'" (Moor's Infanticide, p .247.) " First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears,...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire Next Chemos the obscene dread of Moab's sons, To his grim idol. Peor his other... | |
| |
