...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, so dead in look, so woe-bcgone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burned....

...Tourneur*a paraphrasticaf version. He found in the celebrated speech of Northumberland in Henry IV. Eren such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so wo-begono — which he renders 'Ainsi, douleur ! va-fenP A remarkable literary blunder has been recently...

...amusing blunder in rendering Northumberland's famous speech in 'Henry IV.' In the passage " ' Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone.' the words italicized are rendered, ' ainsi doideur I vafen ! — 'so grief, be off with...

...hot from the kitchen fire. And the face of her husband spoke even more plainly than his words : — "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." "What!" said she, — and Mrs. Siddons could...

...the unhappy translator. French writer, in translating the lines in Henry IV., Part II., I. i.: " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone," was good enough to render their last three words thus: ' ainsi, douleur, va-t'en'! ' therefore,...

...keeping, besides being a better rhyme. 1. 110. Wak'd Priam. Cf. 2 Henry IV, Act i, So. 1 :— 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....

...who, with pale countenance, staring eyes, chattering teeth, faultering 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...

...was burnt and he made miserable ? " In 2 King Henry IV. Northumberland says (I. i. 70), — " 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." This, no doubt, is a reference to the appearance...

...Tragedy, II. ip 16 (in Fragmenta Aurea), ed. 1646. (A plagiaritm from 2 Henry IV, I. i. 70-3 : " 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.")...

...comes to Northumberland and dares not tell him that Harry Hotspur is dead. Northumberland says : "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." The translator rendered the words "so wo-begone," " Ainsi, douleur,...