 | Elizabeth Helme - 1825 - 532 pages
...thy tongue to tell thy errand. E'en such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt , But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue • , M illiam gave an evasive answer to his mother's... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...highly expressive, as it denotes the feebleness of the action. A form like this, so pale, so spiritless, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. Here the emphatick would has peculiar expression : " would have told him ;" wished to tell him,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...tell thy errand. Even such a man, so fainf, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so wo-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd. — I see a strange confession in thine eye, Thou shak'st thy head, and hold'st it fear, or sin, To... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 456 pages
...own beau ideal of such a character. I allude to that informer, who— " So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned,— But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue." This, I presume, is just such information as... | |
 | 1828 - 344 pages
...extinguished, snun'nd out, abashed, and creit-fallen— " E'en such a man,— So dull, ao dead ill look, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was bnrn'd." No prophet is honoured in hii own country — no man is a hero to ts valet dechambre : but... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...Exhausted. (2) Lace tagged. ' (3) HUderling, base, cowardly. ' «> An atUjeUttion of its ravage. :w Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd : lut Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it. This... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 pages
...tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so wo-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was bum'd, But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue : And I my Percy's death, ere thou report's! it.... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 pages
...own beau ideal of such a character. I allude to that informer, who — " So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned, — But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue.'' This, I presume, is just such information... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pages
...thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burned ; But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone," Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,...And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd. 19— -i. 1. 396 What haste looks through his eyes! So should he look, That seems to speak things strange.... | |
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Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt... 
