 | John Milton - 1746 - 464 pages
...front to front, Hov'ring 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 ftood: For never but once more was either like 72 I To meet fa grdat a foe. And now... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 630 pages
...front to front, Hov'ring 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 ftood : For never but once more was either like To meet fo great a foe. And now great... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...recline the weary ftars *. And MILTON, fpeaking of Satan and Death on the point of engagement, fays, So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown f (2) An Hyperbole is exprefsed by similitude or comparifon. Thus VIRGIL, defcribing a feafight,... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...front to front Hov'ring 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 t they flood .. For never but once more was either like To meet fo great a foe : and now great... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 514 pages
...black ujion me; ] To look black, may eafily be explained to Icok clou,!] or gluomy. See Milton : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell " Grew darker at their frown." JOHNSON. So Holinfhed, vol. iii. p. 1157; " The bifliops thereat " repined, and looked black." TOLLET. * 'To... | |
 | 1776 - 478 pages
...to front 716 Kov'ring a fpace, till winds the fignal blow To join their daik encounter in mid air : So frown'd the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown, fo match'd they flood; For never but once more was either like 711 To meet I'o great a foe : and now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 632 pages
...: - ' r 8 To the dark hmifc, ] The dark houfe is a houfe made gloomy by difcohtent, Milton fays 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 430 pages
...front to front Hovering a fpace, till winds the f:gnal 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 ftood ; For never but once more was either like To meet fo great a foe : and now great... | |
 | John Milton - 1784 - 276 pages
...front to front, 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 ftood; 720 For never but dfite more was either like To meet fo great a foe : and now... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 632 pages
...Look'd black upon me ; ] To lock black, may eafiiy be explain'd to look cloudy or gloomy. See Milton : " So frown'd the mighty combatants, that hell " Grew darker at their frown." JOHNSON. So, Holinfhed, Vol. III. p. 1 1^7 : " The bifliops thereat repined, and looked black" TOLLET. 3... | |
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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... 
