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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... "
The history of Tom Jones - Page 249
by Henry Fielding - 1832
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Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...Antipodes." STEEVENS. 260. — so dead,—'} So, in the Second Part of Henry 17. aft i. sc. 3. " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, " So dull, so dead, in look, so woe-begone." STEEVENS. B73- — 0 brave touch !~\ Touch in Shakspere's time was the same with our exploit,...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1803 - 410 pages
...to speak, but says, ' The whiteness of thy cheeks Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand ; Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-be-gone, Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...? Thou tremblest ; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than 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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 632 pages
...brother? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than 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:...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...to be the right word, and our author again uses it in King Henry IV, P. II, Act I, sc. iii: " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, " So dull, so dead in look, so woe -begone." Steevens. So also, in Greene's Dorastus and Faumia: " — if thou marry in age, thy wife's...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 488 pages
...Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than 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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...be the right word, and our author again uses it in King H«.r-/ IV, P. II, Act I, sc. iii : " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, " So dull, so dead in look, so woe -begone." Steevens. So also, in Greene's Dorastus and Fawiiia : " — if thou marry in *ge, thy...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 480 pages
...? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than 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...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...ipititfulneii. Harvey. ss. adj. £fronu/jrrf.]IJejectcd; low ; deprived of vigour ; wanting courage ; depressed. A man so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe begone, Drew Prinm's curtain. Shalipeart. Of their wonted vigour left them draln'd, Exhausted,...
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Tom Jones

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 566 pages
...who, with pale countenance, staring eyes, chattering teeth, faltering tongue, and trembling limbs, (E'en such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-bc-gone, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was...
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