 | Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 str.
...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 redolent... | |
 | 1785 - 428 str.
...with which he felects and applies familiar words to great occasions, as in the inftances : .. . — " The great, the important Day, " Big with the fate of Cato, and of Rome — " They«« grows dim with age, &c. &c. This is a very great beauty, for it fares with ideas, as... | |
 | 1785 - 444 str.
...with which he felects and applies familiar words to great occafions, as in the' inftances: . .,—" The great, the important Day, • «• Big with the fate of Cato, and of Rome— ** The fun grows dim with age, &c. &c. This is a very great beauty, for it fares with ideas, as with... | |
 | John Almon - 1785 - 262 str.
...felects and applies familiar words to great occafions, as In the iuftances : •• • •*' Tlie great, the important Day, " Big with the fate of Cato, and of Rome— • " The fun grows Jim with- age, &c. &c. '"!"iv'v This is a very great beauty, for it fares with... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 str.
...contain the Poems of GARTH and POPE. o. ACt I. SCENE I. FORTIUS, MARCUS. PORTIUS. TH E dawn is dv?r-caft, 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 up all... | |
 | 1791 - 648 str.
...which he G 2 feletts feleds and applies familiar words to great occafions, as in the inftances : : " The great, the important day, " Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome."— «' The fun grows dim with age, &c. &c." » • This is a very great beauty, for it fares with ideas,... | |
 | John Jackson - 1793 - 500 str.
...pleafing to a ftranger. On his firft entree in Cato, his mode of pronouncing " The dawn is overcaft, 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 " gave an unfavourable impreffion to a perfon... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 str.
...in the following paflage which opens the tragedy of Cato : The dawn is overcaft, the morning low'rs, And heavily in clouds brings on the day ; The great,...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 the plaintive, naturally... | |
 | 1799 - 574 str.
...judgment with which he selects and applies familiar words to great occasions, as in the instances : -" The great, the important day, " Big with the fate of Cato and of Rome." " The sun grows Jim with age, &c. &c." This is a very great beauty, for it fares with ideas, as with... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 str.
...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 up all the guilt... | |
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The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers And heavily in clouds brings on the day The great, th' important day 
