...object to your eight displays, But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys, A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed? Who hears...

...object to your sight displays, But what with pleasure Heav'n itself surveys ; A brav« man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state ! While Cato gives nis little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies...

...object to your sight displays, But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys; A breve man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state !" FOH'I f Dr. Johnson has an allusion to this character, which bears upon iiis representative on the...

...object to your sight displays ; But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys, A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause 1 Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears...

...displays. But what with pleasure Heaven itself sunrn, A brave man struggling in the storms of Eate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's ramt ' Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears...

...sablime Prologue explains in a few worda all that is exhibited in this tragedy: " A brave man straggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state." A patriot who devotes his life to the public weal, and gloriously lays it down when it can no longer...

...which would be used there : * A (') above the line, denotes a brief pause. A brave man, struggling" in the storms of fate, And greatly falling' with a falling state. POPE. They' hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took' their s61itary way. MILTON....

...the following couplet, which nearly coincides with the tone I am condemning. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling, with a falling state. I am aware that it is difficult to represent this scholastic tone by any description to the eye. One...

...displays, But what, with pleasure, heaven itself surveys: A brave man struggling in the storms-ef-£ate, , And greatly falling with a falling state ! While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed ? Who hears...

...object to your sight displays, But what with pleasure Heaven itself surveys, A brave man struggling He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers; he never attempted to make th.it better which laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause ? Who sees him act, but envies every deed 1 Who hears...