...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Gentleman, who has just sat down, strongly reminds me~of what Lord Chesterfield says in one of his letters, when speaking of the tragedy of Cato. That accomplished...nothing in all this but what a watchman tells us when he calls out " past four o'clock and a cloudy morning !" Just so with the Right Honourable Gentleman's...

...remarks that there is nothing in the two beautiful lines with which the poem opens : — " The datvn is overcast, the morning lowers, " And heavily in...nothing in all this but what a watchman tells us when he calls out " past four o'clock, and a cloudy morning!" Just so with the right hon. gent.'s speech...

...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...