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W 4 iom Mafon lias followed with equal fp.irit; 
Hell, from her gulph profound, 
•Routes at thine approach ; and all around 
Her dreadful notes of preparation found : 
See! at her awful call, 
Her fliadowy Heroes all, 
E’en mighty Kings, the heirs of empire wide, 
Rifing, with folemn date, and flow, 
From their fable thrones below, 
Meet, and infult thy pride. 
Mafon. Ode v'l. St. r. 3. 
Our Poets make compound words, by adjoining fome 
term to “ Hell:” 
Retire, or tafte thy folly, and learn by proof, 
Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heaven. 
Milton. Par. L. ii. 686. 
And reckoned thou thyfelf with Spirits of Heaven, 
. Hell-doom’d. _ P. L. ii. 696. 
Either with Hellfire 
To wafte his own Creation. P. L. ii. 364; 
Then both from out Hell-gates into the wade / 
Flew diverfe.' P L.x.' 282. 
And knew not that I call’d and drew them thither. 
My Hell-hounds. P.L.x. 62 9. 
The Gates of “Hell” are mentioned by our Lord, 
in St. Matt. xvi. 18. It has been conjectured, that our 
Lord here alluded to the Doors of the Sepulchres in 
Judea; remains of which are hill extant, and they ftill 
excite the admiration of Travellers. See Maundrel, 
p. 96. But a better interpretation of the paflage will 
be given, if 1 "we underhand “ The Gates of Hell,” as a 
figurative expreflion for “ The fallen Angels and Evil 
Spirits, inhabitants of Hell.” ‘ For the trial of our Faith, 
Virtue, and Conftancy, they are permitted to aflail us 
with temptations, and occafionally to exert the utnioft 
malignity, through the iiiftrumeritality of Men helliHi 
as themfelves, againfl the peace and happinefs which 
the Chriftian Religion is calculated to produce in this 
Life ; and againfl the cultivation of thole pure and holy 
’qualities, which will procure for us the Intercellion of 
our Saviour and the BIdling of God in a Future State. 
But let us “watch and pray;” be “ vigilant and fober 
let us “ quit onrfelves like Men,” and fear not. For 
although, in the words of the excellent Vah Mildert, 
(who is fpeaking of recent tranfaClions,) “ The concuf- 
lion has been tremendous and the deflation extenlive, 
perhaps beyond all precedent; Chriftianity ftill furvives 
and defies the Adverfary.”—“All the promiles relative 
to the great work of Redemption, and to the ultimate 
triumph of the Gofpel over all its opponents, our Bielfed 
Lord hath confirmed arid ratified by the all u ranee riven 
in the words, that “ The Gates of Hell fhall not prevail 
againfl; it.”—Serm. n and 12. Vol. i. of Boyle’s Lec¬ 
tures, by Rev. Mr. W. Van Mildert. 
To HELL, v.a. To cover: 
Elfe would the waters overflow the lands, 
And fire devoure the ayre, and hell them quight. Spenfer. 
Upton-is for altering hell into hele-, but if hell will bear 
the fame interpretation, the text may Hand as it does. 
Mafon’s Supplement to Johnfon .. 
HELL-BECKS, little brooks in Richmondlhire, fo 
called from their depth. 
HELL-BLACK, adj. Black as hell: 
The fea, with fuch a ftorm as his bare head 
In hell-black night endur’d, would have boil’d up, 
And quench’d the ftelled-fires. . King Lear. 
HELL-BRED, adj. Produced in hell: 
Heart cannot think what courage and what cries. 
With foul enfouldred fmoak’and flalhing fire, 
The hell-bud bead threw forth into the Ikies. Spenfer. 
VO'i.. IX. No. $89. 
It E L , 333 
HELL-B&OTH, f. A compofition boiled up for ir. 
fernal purposes : 
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s fling. 
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing; 
For a charm of powerful trouble,' . 
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Sliakefpeare . 
HELL-DOOMED, adj. Configned to hell: 
And reckon’d thou thyfelf with fp.irits of heav’n, 
Hell-doom’dl and hreath’ft defiance here and fcorn. 
Where I reign king ? t Milton. 
HELL-GOVERNED, adj. Directed by hell-: 
Earth, gape open wide and eat him quick, 
As thou doft Avallow up this good king’s blood, 
Which W\s kell-govern’d arm hath butchered. Shakefpeare.' 
HELL-HATED, -adj. , Abhorred like hell: 
Back do I tofs thefe freafons to thy head ; 
With the hell-hated lie o’erwhelm thy heart. Shakefpeare. 
HELL-HAUNTED, adj. Haupted by the devil: 
Fierce Ofmond clos’d me in the bleeding bark, 
And bid me Hand oppos’d to the bleak winds, 
Bound to the fate of this hell-haunted' grove. Dryden. 
HELL-HOUND,/ ['helie- hun&, Sax.] Dog of hell: 
Now tire hell-hounds with fuperior fpeed 
Had'reach’d the dame, and, faftening on her fide, 
The ground with ifluing flreains of purple dy’d. Dryden. 
Agent of hell: 
I call’d 
My hell-hounds to lick up the draff, and filth, 
Which man’s polluting fin with taint had fried. . Milton. 
HELL-KETTLES,, three Angularly curious fubter- 
r-anean pools, upwards of ninety feet deep, fituated near 
Darlington in the county, of Durham ; for particulars of 
which fee the article Darlington, vol. v. p.603. 
HELL-KI1 E, / Kite of infernal breed. The term 
hell prefixed to any word denotes deteftation: 
Did you fay all ? What all ? Oh, hell-kite! all ? 
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, 
At one fell fwoop ? Shakefpeare. 
HEL'LA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak, on the Euphrates: fifty miles fouth of Bagdad. 
HELLA'DIAN, adj. [from Gr.] Belonging 
to Greece, or to the Greeks. 
HELLA'DIAN,/. A Greek. 
HELLAN'ICUS, a celebrated Greek hiftorian, born 
at Mitylene. He wrote a hiftory of the ancient kings 
of the earth, with an account of the founders of thp 
riio.fi: ramous towns in every kingdom, and died the year 
before Chrift 411, and in the eighty-fifth of his age. 
Paufanias. 
HEL'LAS, the ancient name of Greece; fo called 
from Heller), the fori of Deucalion. It comprehended 
Peloponnefus, Gracia Propria, Theflalia, Epirus, and 
Macedonia : bounded on the north by Dalmatia and 
'1 brace ; on the eaft by the fEgean ; on the weft by the 
Ionian fea; and on the fouth by the Mediterranean fea. 
It now forms part of the province of Livadia, which 
fee. 
KEL'LE, in mythology, a daughter of Athariias and 
Nephele, lifter to Phryxus. She fled from her father’s 
lioufe with her brother, to avoid the cruel oppreflion of 
her mother-in-law, Ino. According to fome accounts 
fhe was carried through the air on a golden ram which 
her mother had received from Neptune, and in her paf- 
fage frie became giddy, and fell from her feat into that 
part of the fea which from her received the name of 
Hellefpont. Cithers fay that fhe was carried on a cloud, 
or rather upon a friip, from which fhe fell into the fea 
and was drowned. Phryxus, after he had given his After 
a burial on the neighbouring coafts, purfued his jour¬ 
ney, and arrived fate in Colchis. Ovid. 
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