 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 452 pages
...chieftains of the Tory and Whig party* Never, it is said, was known such intellectual gladiatorship : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown — so match'd they stood ! " If, however, when provoked, their power to crush their opponents was... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...rattling on 715 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...combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown; so match'd they stood ; For never but once more was either like 721 To meet so great a foe : and now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 424 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." JOHNSON. Perhaps this is the same thought we meet with in King Henry IV. only more solemnly expressed:... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...Look'd black upon me,.} To look black, may easily be explain'd to look cloudy or gloomy. See Milton : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell " Grew darker at their frown." JOHN. " Black upon me." Look'd black upon me, is a low and vulgar expression. 1 would read : '• Look'd... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 766 pages
...— Two black clouds With heav'n's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Cafpian ; then fland front to front, Hov'ring a fpace, 'till winds the fignal blow To join their dark encounter ii mid air. Milton. 3. Eager and warm converfatfon, either of love or anger. — The peaking cornuto... | |
 | Francis Augustus Cox - 1817 - 622 pages
...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 COMBATANTS—(h) Eckius selected thirteen propositions from the works of Luther as the subjects of... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal ouch. Dip but your toes into cold water, Their correspondent might}- combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so match'd they stood ; For never but once... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 324 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." Johnson. Perhaps this is the same thought we meet with in King Henry IV, only more solemnly expressed:... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...front to front Hov'ring 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 ruatch'd they stood ; For never but once more was either like 721 To meet so great a foe. And now... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, Hoveriug a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So...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... | |
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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... 
