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" Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 80 dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night. "
Tropical Sketches: Or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist - Page 275
by William Knighton - 1855
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Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 pages
...paraph rasticaf version. He found in the celebrated speech of Northumberland in Henry IV. Even auch a man, so faint, so spiritless, 80 dull, so dead in look, BO wo-begono — which he renders 'Ainsi, douteur ! va-fent* A remarkable literary blunder has been...
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Tropical Sketches: Or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist, Volume 1

William Knighton - 1855 - 448 pages
...the work of a moinsnt. " Ha! you scoundrel!" shouted he, at the same time in choice Hiudostannee. " Are you leaving me to be eaten up by musquitos, and...appearance — " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night." He had received...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Plays, and Poems ...

William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...brother* Thou tremblest ; and the whiteness in thy chee* Ts apter than thy tongue to tell .thy errand. Oxford editor, a man, in myTjpinibn, eminently qualified by nature for such 5100167. He had, what is t in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd But Priam found the fire, ere...
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Talks on the Study of Literature

Arlo Bates - 1897 - 282 pages
...matter of it. Merry Wives, i. 1. Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Merchant of Venice, i. 1. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 80 dull,...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...
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