 | 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 - 1806 - 340 pages
...come-twang. 8 To the dark house, &c.] The dark house is a 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 Grey. Perhaps this is the same thought we meet with in King Henry li", only more solemnly expressed:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 378 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. Ill, p. 1157 : " — the bishops thereat repined, and looked black." Toilet. *... | |
 | 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." Toilet. *... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...to front, 716 Hovering a fpace, till winds the fignal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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, 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 great... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 424 pages
...GREY. • To the dark house, &c.] The dark house is a house made gloomy by discontent. Milton says of death and the king of hell preparing to combat...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: " he's... | |
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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... 
