| Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 sivua
...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 - 954 sivua
...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... | |
| 1804 - 516 sivua
...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 - 946 sivua
...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 714 sivua
...has just sat down, strongly reminds me of what lorrl Chesterfield says in one of his letters, wh' n speaking of the tragedy of Cato. That accomplished...that there is nothing in the two beautiful lines with ' " The dafrn is overcast, the morning lowers, " And heavily ¡n cluuds brings on tije Jay — ." that... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 sivua
...part of Portius, and having stepped forward with a prodigious though an accustomed strut, began — " The dawn is overcast ; the morning lowers ; And heavily, in clouds, brings on the day." The audience began upon this to vociferate " Prologue! prologue! prologue!" when Wignell, finding them... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1825 - 332 sivua
...of Porlius, and having stepped forward with a prodigious though an accustomed strut, began — . " The dawn is overcast ; the morning lowers ; And heavily, in clouds, brings on the day." The audience began upon this to vociferate " Prologue! prologue! prologue!" when Wignell, finding them... | |
| 1826 - 384 sivua
...solicitude. The thought with which Cato opens, appears to have been borrowed from Lee's Alexander. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. CATO. The morning rises black ; the lowering sun, As if the dreadful business he foreknew, Drives heavily... | |
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