| Edmund Burke - History - 1871 - 670 pages
...homo. Did we say on such an occasion,, in the opening words of Mr. Addison's impressive tragedy — " The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day " ? Not so. From horizon to zenith all was couleur de rose, for all was... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...Scene, — .d Ляй in the governor's palace in Utica. ACT I. SCENE I. Enter PORTIUS and MARCUS. Por. THE dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great, the impôt tant day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Our father's death Would fill... | |
| English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...4"''Seene, — A hall in the governor's palace in Utitn. ACT I. SCENE I. ínter PORTIUS ßnd MARCUS. Por. THE dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great, the impoi tant day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Our father's death Would fill... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...Scene, — A hall in the governor's palace in Utica. ACT I. SCENE I. Enter PORTIUS and MARCUS. for. THE dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great, the impoi tant day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Our father's death Would fill... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...Porter. Scene, a large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica. ACT I. SCENE I. PORTIUS, MARCUS. Par. The dawn is over-cast, the morning lowers, and heavily in clouds brings on the day, the great, the important day; big with the fate of Cato and Rome.— Our father's death would fill... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...Porter. Scene, a large Hall in the Governor's Palace of Utica. ACT I. SCENE I. FORTIUS, MARCUS. Par. The dawn is over-cast, the morning lowers, and heavily in clouds brings on the day, the great, the important day; big with the fate of Cato and Rome.— Our father's death •would fill... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...astícA contain the рое mí of Garth and Pope. ACT I. SCENE I. PORTIUS, MARCUS. POHTIUS. Т як dawn is over-cast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Our father's death Would fill... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope - Philosophy, English - 1810 - 468 pages
...said plaiuly and simply, as one vould say them in prose ; hnt they are descrihed and emhellished , as for example, what you hear the watchman say often in three words, a clondy morning, is said thus in verse, in the tragedy of t'ato: ' The dawn is overcast, the morning... | |
| William Windham - Great Britain - 1812 - 452 pages
...of Cato, remarks that there is nothing in the two beautiful lines with which the poem opens : — " The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, " And heavily in clouds brings on the day — " that there is nothing in all this but what a watchman tells us when he calls out " past four... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 714 pages
...remarks that there is nothing in the two beautiful lines with which the poem opens : — " The datvn is overcast, the morning lowers, " And heavily in clouds brings on the day — ." that there is nothing in all this but what a watchman tells us when he calls out " past four... | |
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