 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...idea in the text is from that noble paffage in Paradife Loft, where it is faid of Satan and Death, So frown'd the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown, ii. 719. V. 44. — my cheated mind.] The fpells of the inchanter Comus are " of power to cheat the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...than dependent. Addisun. 4. It is regularly answered by as or that, but tjiey are sometimes omitted. So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown. Miltca. There is something equivalent in France and Scotland; to at 't is a very hard cjumny upon:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 322 pages
...house made gloomy by discontent. Milton says of death and the king of hell preparing to combat : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell " Grew darker at their frown." Juhnson. Perhaps this is the same thought we meet with in King Hen•y If, only more solemnly expressed:... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front 716 llov'ring a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air: So frown'd the mighty comhatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown, so match'd they stood ; For never buf once more was... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 756 pages
...artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Cafpian ; then Hand front to froat, Hov'ring a fpa«e, 'till winds the fignal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air. Alilti*. 3. Eager and warm converfetion, either of lovt or anger. — The peaking cornuto comes to... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 900 pages
...dependent. Addifon. 4. It is regularly ai:fwered by us or that, but they are Sometimes omitted. — So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown. Milton. , So thou, my dcareft, trueft, btft AlldiV Vouchfafe to lodge me in thy genfle htirt, 10. In... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...Shakfpeare, 7am. <fIhc Shrew, A. i. S. ii. Over the Cafpian, then ftand front to front, 716 Hovering a fpace, till winds the fignal blow To join their...Hell Grew darker at their frown ; fo match'd they flood ; 720 For never but once more was either like To meet fo great a Foe : And now great deeds Had... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 384 pages
...Look'd black upon me;] To look black, may easily be explained to look cloudy or gloomy. See Milton : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell " Grew darker at their frown." •Johnson. So, Holinshed, Vol. lll, p. 1157 : " — the bishops thereat repined, and looked black."... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join the dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was either like To meet so great a foe : and now... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...fraught, come rattling Over the Caspian, then stand front to front Hov'ring a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Crew darker at their frown, so match'd they stood ; Tor never but once more was either like To meet... | |
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Each cast at the' other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty... 
