| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 páginas
...feasts profaned, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, bcsmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears;...unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipp'd in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of... | |
| John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 páginas
...would be as grey little Moll, and that the trope for a cat ! " First MOLOCH, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents tears, Though...timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To this grim idol." MiuoN. " The kitchen MALKIN pins Her richest lockram' bout... | |
| John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 páginas
...would be as grey little Moll, and that the trope for a cat ! " First MOLOCH, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents tears, Though...timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To this grim idol." MIITON. " The kitchen MALKIN pins Her richest lockram' bout... | |
| John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 326 páginas
...would be as grey little Moll, and that the trope for a cat I " First MOLOCH, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, 'l'hoir children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To this grim idol." Mino«. " The kitchen... | |
| Robert Pashley - 1837 - 398 páginas
...traditions respecting Talos would alone lead us to suppose that Crete once possessed, as its chief Deity, A Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears : and the positive testimonies of ancient authors to the Cretan custom of slaying human victims, in... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 518 páginas
...His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd, 390 And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that past through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite 396 Worship'd in Rabba and her wat'ry plain, In... | |
| John Gay - 1838 - 254 páginas
...these alone she talk'd and toy'd. 60 A huge Baboon her fancy took, (Almost a man in size and look) " Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,...unheard that pass'd through fire "To his grim idol." Paradise Lost, b. 1. 1. 392. These horrid rites are frequently alluded to in Scripture, and forhidden... | |
| 1828 - 608 páginas
...the fire only. * ' First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parent's tears ,• Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels...cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.'_Par. Lost, b. I. * Throughout the whole of this scene, there were no outward appearances to... | |
| Junonesia - 1838 - 262 páginas
...child : the Moloch sacrifices — mother and child ! — of the forceps in unpractised hands. " First Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears." And be it remembered, the doctor himself has admitted, that in his own practice, as just detailed,... | |
| 1840 - 214 páginas
...and tried experimentally upon himself puts one in mind of Milton's Moloch. " Horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice and parents' tears,...unheard that pass'd through fire To his grim idol." — PAH. LOST, 392. NOTE 52, PAGE 72. Sopa boba de las reservas. — There is some difficulty in translating... | |
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