...night" to have "trifled former knowings."|| As closes, at i disperse, head."^f So in Addison's tragedy : 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.** When Eve plucks the forbidden...

...alone; between entire and between enough and sufficient; between avow, acknowledge, and confess. " The dawn Is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily In clouds brings on the dcy, The great, the important diy, big with the fate Of Calu and of Home.'' In the first two lines,...

...Tautology is the telling of the same thing, or nearly the same thing, again and again, in other ways. " The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, and heavily in clouds brings on the day."—Addison, as quoted and criticised by Johnson. "Let observation, with extensive view, survey...

...part of Portias; and having stepped forward with a prodigious though accustomed strut, began: — " The dawn is overcast; the morning lowers, And heavily, in clouds, brings on the day." The audience upon this began to vociferate " Prologue ! prologue ! prologue ! " when Wignell, finding...

...U H. TITCS. MAUCIA. LUCIA. ACT I. SCENE L— Л Hall in Ute Palace. Enter TORCHIS and MARCUS. P»r. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on tbc day, The great, the important day, big with the Tato Of Cuto find of Home. Our father's death Would...

...willing give him leve. J Fine by defect and delicately weak. — POPE, p. 194. JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. 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. Act i. Sc. 1. Thy steady temper,...

...entire and fm.ir.'^.o , between tr-nugh and nujficient; between avow, acknowledge, and confes». " The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the dty, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of liome." In the first two lincs,...

...consists in telling the lame thing, or nearly the same thing, again and again, in other ways ; as, " The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, and heavily in clouds brings on the day." — Addison. It is generally much easier to find other ways of telling the snme thing, than to add...

...continually grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them." So in Addison : — " The dawn is overcast ; the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day." Through constantly aiming at a balanced structure of sentence, Johnson sometimes approaches this fault....

...3. - Leigh Hunt incorrectly ascribes this expression to Congreve. JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. C ATO. 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. Act \. Sc. i. Thy steady temper,...