The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 381
... Syphax prevail over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba : and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of Portius over the generous frankness and open - heartedness of Marcus . " Whatever pleasure there may be in seeing crimes ...
... Syphax prevail over the honest simplicity and the credulity of Juba : and the sly subtlety and dissimulation of Portius over the generous frankness and open - heartedness of Marcus . " Whatever pleasure there may be in seeing crimes ...
Page 382
... Syphax , and then the two politicians are at it immediately . They lay their heads together , with their snuff - boxes in their hands , as Mr. Bayes has it , and feague it away . But in the midst of that wise scene , Syphax seems to ...
... Syphax , and then the two politicians are at it immediately . They lay their heads together , with their snuff - boxes in their hands , as Mr. Bayes has it , and feague it away . But in the midst of that wise scene , Syphax seems to ...
Page 383
... Syphax , in the same Act ; the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to bear away Marcia by force ; and : his brutal and clamorours rage upon his refusal , and at a ...
... Syphax , in the same Act ; the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to bear away Marcia by force ; and : his brutal and clamorours rage upon his refusal , and at a ...
Page 384
... Syphax , who enters at the same time that the guards are carrying away the leaders , big with the news of the defeat of Sempronius ; though where he had his intelligence so soon is difficult to imagine ? And now the reader may expect a ...
... Syphax , who enters at the same time that the guards are carrying away the leaders , big with the news of the defeat of Sempronius ; though where he had his intelligence so soon is difficult to imagine ? And now the reader may expect a ...
Page 385
... Syphax : What hinders then , but that you find her out , And hurry her away by manly force ? But what does old Syphax mean by finding her out ? They talk as if she were as hard to be found as a hare in a frosty morning . Semp . But how ...
... Syphax : What hinders then , but that you find her out , And hurry her away by manly force ? But what does old Syphax mean by finding her out ? They talk as if she were as hard to be found as a hare in a frosty morning . Semp . But how ...
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