| John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 Seiten
...horrid king. Milton has described the character of Moloch in the following well-known lines : — First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabha and her watery plain, In Argob... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...things His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light First one Of lustre from the brook, in memory lhat pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worship! in Rabba and her watry plain.... | |
| George Rogers - 1843 - 372 Seiten
...deity of that dark creed ! It is equally easy to love him, as to love the grim vision of Milton's ' Moloch, horrid king : Besmear'd with blood of human sacrifice, And parents' tears" I>oes he indeed love his enemies ? How, I pray, is that love evinced? By continuing them in life? Yes,... | |
| Christian Gleaner - 1844 - 342 Seiten
...fauning zephyrs, and that wild brood of gamesome deities — the lurking satyrs. Yet we must glance at, " Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human...children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To this grim idol ;" and who was worshipped in Rabba, Argob, and Basan, to the stream of utmost Arnon... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 Seiten
...whom Milton designates among the infernal spirits as the homicide, — "Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears,...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd thro' fire To his grim idol." The modern, like the ancient worshippers of the homicidal spirit, presume... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1851 - 318 Seiten
...The poet Milton, in Paradise Lost, describes these Syrian gods. Next Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard ; that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba, and her watery plain. Next... | |
| Henry White - 1844 - 594 Seiten
...destined against Egypt, the Assyrian monarch again appeared before " Moloch, horrid kinsr, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though for the noise of drums nnil tiinbrols loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol."—... | |
| Malachi Mouldy (pseud.) - 1844 - 310 Seiten
...mansion in this fleshly nook : — concludes with a description of rites which seemed appropriate To Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ! Nor can we accuse this account of inconsistency : for the inconsistency was in the religion itself.... | |
| George Blair - 1845 - 298 Seiten
...Knock intersect, the sun, viewed from this spot, sinks beneath the horizon on the shortest day. First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human...timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Farad. Lost. BI Zeal then, not charity, became the guide, And... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 352 Seiten
...Topheth, from a word signifying drums." How very shocking! It is indeed, Harry. Well does Milton say, " Moloch ! horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears ?" But idolatry is altogether an awful subject. How degrading to rational beings, that they should... | |
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