 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...opens the tragedy of Cato : The dawn is overcaft, the morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great, the important day, Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. dignity which thefe objedls excite in the mind ; and thefe tones being inclined to... | |
 | Loyalist - France - 1803 - 344 pages
...every British bosom. You are told by a perfidious and restless foe, that the dawn is overcast;' that the great, the important day, big with the fate of freedom and of Britain, is,at hand ; that the time in which she is to perish in the struggle draws nigh, when the... | |
 | France - 1904 - 518 pages
...every British bosom. You are told by a perfidious and restless foe, that the dawn is overcast, that the great the important day, big with the fate of freedom and of Britain,is at hand— that the time in which she is to perish in the struggle draws nigh, when the... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...you wish for quiet Ï she will scold her servants. Will you retire to your study Ï even if it be not on the day, the great, the important day, Big with the fate of bucket and of broom, she will meet you with a scrubbing brush ! Speaking of a bad wife (and the chances... | |
 | 1807 - 588 pages
...• . • ; .-...-• 'y ' ...-...••... .- • : J. HE dawn was overcast, the morning lower'dy And heavily in clouds brought on the day, ., ' , The great, the important day, big with the fate Of England, or of Rome.' Those of our readers who are familiar, with the histor^ of the reformation from"... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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 up all the guilt of civil war, and close the scene... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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 up all the guilt of civil war, and close the scene... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...opens the tragedy of Cato : The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs, 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 and swell of language itj this description, naturally... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...rival was to stand by and poke it — I saved my character but I ruined my constitution. At length the day — " the great, the important day, big with the fate" of three hack steeds and eighteen goodly personages, burst through my window-curtains. I had coaxed myself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...condemned in Mr. Pope. Thus, The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Again: Who knows not this ? but what can Cato do Against a world, a base degenerate... | |
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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. 
