...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...

...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...

...very little danger of falling into the chant of bad readers. Thus in the following passage which opens the tragedy of 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. The grandeur of the objects...

...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...

...disdain'd to hear. CATC. ACT I. SCENE I.— A Hall in the Palace. Enter PORCIDS and MARCUS, it. Par. 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, (c.) Our father's death Would...

...This difference between verse and prose you will easily observe, if you read them both with attention. In verse, things are seldom said plainly and simply,...tragedy of Cato : " The dawn is overcast, the morning lours, And heavily in clouds brings on the day." This is poetical diction ; which would be improper...

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...tragedy 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 o'clock,...

...darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warriour's tomb DIALOGUE. — Addison. Fount's AND MARCUS. Par. 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 our father's death Would fill up...

...return, Thou patriot Tell — thou Bruce of Bannockbwrn. DIALOGUE. PORTIUS AND MARCUS.— Addison. Par. 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 our father's death Would fill up...