...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...differenee between verse and prose you will easily observe, if you read them both attention. In verse thing* are seldom said plainly and simply, as one would say them in prose ; but tfiey are deseribed and embellished ; as for example, what you hear the •watehman say often in three...