 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
 | John Price Durbin - Middle East - 1845 - 394 pages
...Tophet, was the scene of the base idolatries of the Jews when they gave themselves up to the worship of " Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears." It was just opposite this spot that the wisest of kings, in the dark days of his alienation from the... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 424 pages
...feasts profan'd, 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,... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1847 - 160 pages
...Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the * " 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." — Milton. Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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...unheard, that pass'd thro' fire To his grim idol." It has not been remarked, as Mr. Todd observed to me, how many expressions Pope takes from Milton,... | |
 | Henry White - 1848 - 704 pages
...sacrificed. Hence also the names of Tophet, Gehinnom. or Ge-henna, given to the place of eternal torments. " Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol." — MILTON. The high placa mentioned above were those in which... | |
 | India - 1848 - 622 pages
...more to Siva : — " First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parent's tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol"* There is considerable wisdom in the observations of the Board... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears : '1 hough, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd though fire, To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 396 Worship'd in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob... | |
 | Henry White - History - 1849 - 592 pages
...sacrificed. Hence also the names of Tophet, Gehinnom or Ge-henna, given to the place of eternal torments. " Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol." — MILTON. Jerusalem, in which was the prophet Isaiah. But... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1849 - 424 pages
...feasts profan'd, 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 706 pages
...— See Fagius, as quoted by Selden, De Satan's kingdom, begins with Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears,...noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's eries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. — Par. Lost, i. 392.] 1 [Tom. vii. p. 821.]... | |
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