 First, 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 fire To his grim idol.  The Southern Quarterly Review - Page 495edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | 1841 - 752 pages
...honour of -' Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parent's tears, Tim" fur the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed thro' fire To his grim idol.' But the scourge of the avenger was at hand. Judah was attacked... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...feasts profaned, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipp'd in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob... | |
 | John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...the character of Moloch in the following well-known lines : — First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd 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 Worshipt in Rabha and her watery plain, In Argob... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd n memory lhat pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worship! in Rabba and her watry plain.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with btood his toil. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her watry plain. In Argob and... | |
 | 1843 - 826 pages
...who, if he were not far more terrible than the most hideous of Milton's creations, might be taken for Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ! While he is on his walk, ye sickly whiners after opportunities of distinction, why fold your arms,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Mythology - 1851 - 318 pages
...Moloch, Chemos was worshipped. The poet Milton, in Paradise Lost, describes these Syrian gods. Next Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human...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... | |
 | Christian Gleaner - Gift books - 1844 - 342 pages
...of gamesome deities — the lurking satyrs. Yet we must glance at, " Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...timbrels loud Their 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... | |
 | Henry White - History - 1844 - 594 pages
...expedition 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."—... | |
 | George Blair - Superstition - 1845 - 298 pages
...from this spot, sinks beneath the horizon on the shortest day. First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...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... | |
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