| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...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 pasa'd thro' fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 396 Worship'din Rahba and her wat'ry plain, In... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...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,...unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worship'd in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Hasan, to the stream Of utmost... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with hiood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd thro' fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 3Q/5 Worshipp'd in Rabba and her wat'ry plain, In Argob... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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'd through To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite [fire Worshipp'd in Rabba and her watery plain ; In Argob and in... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...its life:— . Like 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 (ire To his grim idol. Some remains of this dreadful superstition have appeared in one... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Kings viii. 6, and 7. See also 392. Firtt Moloch, horridking,} Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their...unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 596 Worshipp'd in Rabba and her wat'ry plain, First after Satan and Beelzebub. The... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...his light, First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, ut now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where th To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite [fire Worshipp'd in Rabba and her wat'ry plain, In Argob and in... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...Moloch : " First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Tho' for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd thro" fire To his grim idol." It has not been remarked, as Mr. Todd observed to me, how many So drives... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Moloch : " First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Tho' for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd thro" fire To his grim idol." It has not been remarked, as Mr. Todd observed to me, how many So drives... | |
| Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...tender children " To Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' teara, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim idol." It is true, that I was not in India in the character of a missionary,... | |
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