 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; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou...  The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - Page 2by Richard Valpy - 1801 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. This thou would'st say, — Your son did thus, and thus ; Your brother, thus : so fought the... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pages
...tell thy errand. Ev'n 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. But Priam found the tire, ere he his tongue, And I my poor son's death, ere thou relat'st it.... | |
 | Francis William Bain - 1891 - 258 pages
...books, with a face as pale as that of the messenger, who, as the poet says, Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night 'And would have told him, half his Troy was burned. But come, what are the two ? Why, said he, the ultimate end, I imagine, is the same as that... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 550 pages
...nnd duirnctcr. CHAPTER XIV. "Eren such a man, BO faint, so spiritless, Bo 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. SHAUHARB. ALL this time, matters were elsewhere passing in their usuuJ train. Jasper, like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1893 - 238 pages
...tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 70 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 Priarn found the five ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou wouldst... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 384 pages
...followed. * 185. 4. ' 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 burned.' Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. ii. Act i. Sc. 1. 188. 2. linstock, a pointed stick with a fork... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 320 pages
...such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd) entered the room, and declared — That Madam Sophia was not to be found. " Not to be found... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 508 pages
...whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy 'tongue to tell thy errand. Even 'such a man, so faint, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 638 pages
...Priam's curtain — Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in looks, so woe-begoue, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned. King Henri/ IV, part ii. act i. so. 1 Pricking — By the pricking of niy thumbs, Something... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1897 - 276 pages
...Merchant of Venice, i. 1. Ev«n sucli 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. 2 Henry IV., i. 1. The reader must know something of the Star-chamber, of the gravity and wisdom of... | |
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