 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 Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface, historical and ... - Page 74edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 264 pages
...conversation with my Lords, his face so pale, and even appeared like his who " Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd." Harolde made him sit down, and cheered him with a bumper of wine, and then proceed with his... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 268 pages
...conversation with my Lords, his face so pale, and even appeared like his who " Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd." Harolde made him sit down, and cheered him with a bumper of wine, and then proceed with his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...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 report'st it.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1826 - 996 pages
...such a man, so faint, so spiritless So dull, so dead in look, so woc-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy wss burnBut Priam found the fire, ere he his tonguf. And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'rt h.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 346 pages
...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 Percv's death, ere thou report'st it.... | |
 | English drama - 1828 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1828 - 456 pages
...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... | |
 | 844 pages
...! — -" E'en such a man So pale, so dead of look, so wan, so woc-begone, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burned.'* The utmost effect, that any adroitness of argumentation could produce, on this HIC JACET... | |
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