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... pass , And but one day for triumph was allow'd , The consul was constrain'd his pomp to crowd ; And so the swift procession hurry'd on , That all , though not distinctly , might be shown : So in the straiten'd bounds of life confin'd ...
... pass , And but one day for triumph was allow'd , The consul was constrain'd his pomp to crowd ; And so the swift procession hurry'd on , That all , though not distinctly , might be shown : So in the straiten'd bounds of life confin'd ...
Page 442
... pass with his mistress through the southern gate , where her brother Marcus is upon the guard , and where she would certainly prove an impedi- ment to him , which is the Roman word for the baggage ; instead of doing this , Sempronius is ...
... pass with his mistress through the southern gate , where her brother Marcus is upon the guard , and where she would certainly prove an impedi- ment to him , which is the Roman word for the baggage ; instead of doing this , Sempronius is ...
Page 444
... pass , a that during all this time he had sent nobody , no not so much as a candle - snuffer , to take away the dead body of Sempronius . Well ! but let us regard him listening.p Having left his apprehension behind him , he , at first ...
... pass , a that during all this time he had sent nobody , no not so much as a candle - snuffer , to take away the dead body of Sempronius . Well ! but let us regard him listening.p Having left his apprehension behind him , he , at first ...
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