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In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

Samuel Johnson
Night, Ideas, Darkness
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 90 (16 October 1769)
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.