 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...stroke Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd 490 Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for...than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who fill'd 495 With lust and violence the house of GOD ? In courts... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...stroke Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. Belial came last, than whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for...temple stood Or altar smok'd ; yet who more oft than he 1 * Rimmon : ' god of Syrians. — 2 ' Orus : ' son of Osiris and Isis. It was fabled that when the... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...stroke, Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself; to him no temple stood, Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. BELIAL came last,1 than whom a spirit more lewd 490 Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood, Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...stroke Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood, Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...stroke Both her first-born and all her bleating gods. 3 Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself: to him no temple stood In temples and at altars, when the priest Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he Turns atheist,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...meaning ! "— TRENCH'S Study of Words. Vice for itselt : to him no temple stood, Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled 495 With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts... | |
 | Frederick Adolphus Packard - Bible - 1855 - 726 pages
...Milton represents Belial as one of tho fallen spirits : Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself. BELIEVE. (See FAITH.) BELL. (Zech. xiv. 20.) Bells were attached to the bottom of tho high-priest's... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...And yet we read elsewhere, •• Than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more grots to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood Or...than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and... | |
 | Jules Michelet - Rome - 1856 - 416 pages
...industrious workmen with immense bellies. There was Baal : " Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself: to him no temple stood Or altar smoked; yet wlio more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's... | |
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With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of ri'ot ascends above their loftiest towers, And... 
