 | 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... | |
 | 844 pàgines
...jaws ! — -" 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... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1828 - 346 pàgines
...extinguished, snuffed out, abashed, and creit-fallen— " E'en such a man,— So dull, so dead in look, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half bis Troy was bnrn'd." No prophet is honoured la hii own country — no man is a hero to is valet -de-chambre... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pàgines
...M) Exhausted. (2) Lace tagged. (3) Hildcrling, base, cowardly. (4) An attestation of its ravageDrew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was bun/ But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue^ And I my Percy's death, ere thou report's! it This... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott - 1831 - 520 pàgines
...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 bnrn'il entered the room, and declared, — that Madam Sophia was not to be found. "Not to be found!"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 556 pàgines
...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.... | |
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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... 
