 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagine
...Is afar off to view the flight. JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. CATO. Act i. Sc. 1. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on...important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome. Act i. Sc. 1. Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 pagine
...complete; between tnough and sufficient,' between avow, acknowledge, and con/egft. * The dawn la overcast, the morning lowers. And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the Important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome." In the first two lines, the same sentiment... | |
 | 1859 - 828 pagine
...not disdain'd to hear. ACT I. SCENE L—A Hall. Enter PORTIUS and MARCUS. Por. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on...death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. Already Csesar Has ravag'd more than half the globe, and sees Mankind grown... | |
 | 1859 - 836 pagine
...disdain'd to hear. ACT I. SCEXE I.— Л Hall. Enter PORTIUB and MARCUS. Рот. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on...great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cato und of Rome; our lather's death Would fill up nil the guilt of civil war, And close tin1 scene of blood.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1861 - 696 pagine
...former knowings."|| As closes, at i disperse, head."^f So in Addison's tragedy : the dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, and heavily in clouds brings on the day, the great, the important day, big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.** When Eve plucks the forbidden fruit, and... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pagine
...keep who can. WOENSWORTH. — Kob Roy's Grave. CA TO. — The dawn i> overcast, the morning low1™, And heavily in clouds brings on the day: The great, th' important day, big with the fat« Of Cuto, and of Rome. CA VI ARE. — Twas caviare to the general. SnAEsrEiu — Hamlet, Act II.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pagine
...Utica. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. PORTIUS, MARCUS. Portius. The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great,...death Would fill up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. Already Caesar Has ravag'd more than half the globe, and sees Mankind grown... | |
 | Jest book - 1864 - 396 pagine
...having stepped forward with a prodigious though accustomed strut, began: — " The dawn is overcast; the morning lowers, And heavily, in clouds, brings on the day." The audience upon this began to vociferate " Prologue ! prologue ! prologue ! " when Wignell, finding them... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagine
...defect and delicately weak. — POPE, p. 194. JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. CATO. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome. Act i. Sc. 1. Thy steady temper, Portius,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 pagine
...days. Portins opens the tragedy with these four lines : — The dawn is over-cast, the morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, — The great, th' important day, big with the fate Of Cnto and of Rome ! "Wignell uttered the first two lines amid a hurricane of shouts for the "prologue."... | |
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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 up all the guilt of civil war, And close the scene of blood. 
