A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton. To which is Prefixed Addison's Criticism on "Paradis Lost". With a Preface by DoddJ & R. Tonson, 1762 - 144 pages |
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... Moloch and Belial prepare Reader's Mind for their respective Speeches and Beha- viour in the fecond and fixth Book . The Account of Thammuz is finely romantic , and ' fuitable to what we read among the Antients of the Worship which was ...
... Moloch and Belial prepare Reader's Mind for their respective Speeches and Beha- viour in the fecond and fixth Book . The Account of Thammuz is finely romantic , and ' fuitable to what we read among the Antients of the Worship which was ...
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... Moloch is likewife in all its Circum- ftances full of that Fire and Fury , which distinguish this Spirit from the reft of the fallen Angels . He is de- scribed in the first Book as befmeared with the Blood of human Sacrifices , and ...
... Moloch is likewife in all its Circum- ftances full of that Fire and Fury , which distinguish this Spirit from the reft of the fallen Angels . He is de- scribed in the first Book as befmeared with the Blood of human Sacrifices , and ...
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... Moloch flying from the Battle , and bellowing with the Wound he had received , had his Eye on Mars in the Iliad , who , upon his being wounded , is repre- fented as retiring out of the Fight , and making an Outcry louder than that of a ...
... Moloch flying from the Battle , and bellowing with the Wound he had received , had his Eye on Mars in the Iliad , who , upon his being wounded , is repre- fented as retiring out of the Fight , and making an Outcry louder than that of a ...
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... Moloch ; and it is likewife called Tophet , from the Hebrew toph , a drum ; drums and fuch like noisy inftruments being made use of to drown the cries of the miferable children who were there offered to this idol . It is used in several ...
... Moloch ; and it is likewife called Tophet , from the Hebrew toph , a drum ; drums and fuch like noisy inftruments being made use of to drown the cries of the miferable children who were there offered to this idol . It is used in several ...
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... Moloch , The god of the Ammonites . This name figni- fies King , and he is fuppofed by fome to be the fame with Saturn , to whom the heathens facrificed their children , and by others the Sun. It is faid in Scrip- ture that the children ...
... Moloch , The god of the Ammonites . This name figni- fies King , and he is fuppofed by fome to be the fame with Saturn , to whom the heathens facrificed their children , and by others the Sun. It is faid in Scrip- ture that the children ...
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