 | Joseph Addison - 1713 - 222 pages
...I. SCENE I. i .. . <,. Porttus, Marcus. * ••"•'* HE Dawn is pver-caft, the Morning low'rs, • And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, *• The great, th* important Day5 big with the Fate Of Cato and of Rome. Our Father's Death. ' : Would fill up all the GuUt of Civil... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 360 pages
...behold expire V My Anna Bullen, and the Spanifh Fryar. * The dawn is over-caft, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate " Ev'n Of Cato and of Rome. CATO. " Ev'n" Tamerlane, whofe fainted name appears " Red-letter'd in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 pages
...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 redolent of our relations and... | |
 | Daniel Webb - 1762 - 140 pages
...monotony which you have condemned 'in Mr. Pope : Thus, The dawn is overcaft, fl the morning Iow*rs, And heavily in clouds || brings on the day ; The great, th' important day 0 Big with the fate U of Cato and of Rome. Again,' i? REMARKS ON THE; Again, Who knows not this? 0... | |
 | 1763 - 552 pages
...fame monotony which you have condemned in Mr. Pope: Thus, The dawn is overcaft, || che morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds || brings on the day; The great, th' important day ¡| Big with the fate j| of Cato and of Rome. Again, Who knows not this ? || but what снп Cato do Againft a world, ||... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 pages
...fword he wears, " Fatal alike to Audience and to Play'rs. ' The dawn is over- caft, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day, big with the fate C f Cato and of Rome. * QA 7 o . For ** For ah ! my Sons, what freedom for the Stage, " When Bigotry... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 364 pages
...CATO. С AT О. ACT I. SCENE I. PORTIUS, MARCUS. PORTIU S. THE dawn is over-caft, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great,...th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Reme — Our father's death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And clofe the fcene of blood.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 398 pages
...the Stage, " When Bigotry with Senfe fhall battle wage ? * The dawn is over-caft, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great,...th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Ivornv . CATO. *' When monkifh Laureats only wear the bays, " c Inqnifitors Lord Chamberlains of plays... | |
 | 1782 - 388 pages
...the Stage, " When Bigotry with Senfe fhall battle wage i B The dawn is over-caft, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great,...th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rpmt. CATO. G 3 ". When " When monkifh Laureats only wear the bays, " c Irquifitors Lord Chamberiains... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 pages
...watchman fay often in three words, a cloudy morning, is faid thus in verfe, in the tragedy of Cato : The dawn is overcaft, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. This is poetical diftion ; which would be improper in profe, though each word feparately may be ufed... | |
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