 | Marlborough coll - 1867 - 414 页
...front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frowned the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown, so matched they stood. MILTOX. PL Bk. ii. c. 704 — 720. IDEM LATINE. Dixerat : at monstrum media inter dicta minasque Aspectu... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 页
...Bentham styled poetry " misrepresentation in verse." As a familiar instance, we may quote from Milton, " So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown." The hyperboles of Shakespeare are in keeping with the force and profusion of his genius. They minister... | |
 | John Mitchell Bonnell - 1867 - 372 页
...bestride the gossamer That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet not fall;— so light is vanity." "So frowned the mighty combatants That hell grew darker at their frown." "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one,... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 页
...to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : 6. So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown : so matched they stood ; For never but once more was either like To meet so great a foe ; and now great deeds Had been achieved,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 页
...front to front, Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air: So frowned the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so matched they stood For never but once more was either like To meet so great a foe. 130 • INVOCATION TO LIGHT. (Book... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 页
...literally true. " Upon the battle-field nothing could be seen but rivers of blood and heaps of slain." " So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown." " I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore."... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1872 - 250 页
...statement is requisite. Sometimes it is used with a marked emphasis, implying ' to such a high degree.' So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown. In colloquial language, we often leave the comparison unsupplioa and then the worcl is a mere expression... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 页
...front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air : So frowned the mighty com'batants, that hell Grew darker at their frown ; so matched they stood ; For never but once more was either like To meet so great a Foe : and now great deeds Had been achieved,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 页
...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 matched they stood; 720 For never but once more was either like To meet so great aTFoe : and now great deeds Had been achieved,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 468 页
...front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid-air. So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell Grew darker at their frown ; so matched they stood ; For never but once more was either like 721 To meet so great a foe. And now great deeds Had been... | |
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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 frowned the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown... 
