 | Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 466 pages
...upon another, Their visages have the livid hue of flame." " Even such a man, so pale, so spiritless, So woe-begone, drew Priam's curtain in the dead Of night, and would have told him half his Troy Was burnt." NB For jWWi, read, with Houbigant and Bishop Lowth, OWW>. Verse 9. — " to lay the land desolate... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1820 - 596 pages
...after passing two riotous nights there, when I awakened you one morning at my return, you exclaimed— Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain iu the dead of night. If I was sick of Oxford even during the time you remained, I leave you to guess... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 592 pages
...after passing two riotous nights there, when I awakened you one morning at my return, you exclaimed— Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain iu the dead of night. If I was sick of Oxford even during the time you remained, I leave you to guess... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1820 - 444 pages
...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-begone, Drew Priam's curtains in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd), entered the room,... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 600 pages
...riotous nights there, when I awakened you one morning at my return, you exclaimed— Even such • man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain iu the dead of night. If I was sick of Oxford even during the time you remained, I leave you to guess... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966 - 440 pages
...something may happen astonishing, stupendous like a peal of thunder, or that some figure like that which Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would...: — But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue — may open his eyes if they are clored and let in upon his mind the distracted and degraded state... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1920 - 430 pages
...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, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.1 This attitude of the soul, which spins about itself as it were the garments of its pain, and yet... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 pages
...with pale Countenance, staring Eyes, chattering Teeth, faultering Tongue, and trembling Limbs,2 (E'en such a Man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in Look, so woe-be-gone, Drew Priam's Curtains in the dead of Night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd) entered the Room,... | |
 | Hans-Jürgen Weckermann - 1978 - 380 pages
...brother? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to teil thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull...of night And would have told him half his Troy was burnt ; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue. And 1 my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. (2H4... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1985 - 1106 pages
...conduct of the suspected Jasper, in the manner most suited to his own habits and character. Chapter XIV "Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burned — " 2 Henry IV, 1. 1.70—73. A,L THIS TIME, matters were elsewhere passing in their usual... | |
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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... 
