 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...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 noble... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 404 pàgines
[ El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit ] | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1825 - 532 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
