Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 436
... 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 league 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 league it away . But , in the midst of that wise scene , Syphax seems to ...
Page 437
... 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 clamorous rage upon his refusal , and at a time ...
... 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 clamorous rage upon his refusal , and at a time ...
Page 439
... Syphax ? who enters at the same time that the guards are carrying away the leaders , big with the news of the defeat ... Syphax : ' What hinders then , but that thou find her out , And hurry her away by manly force ? But what does ...
... Syphax ? who enters at the same time that the guards are carrying away the leaders , big with the news of the defeat ... Syphax : ' What hinders then , but that thou find her out , And hurry her away by manly force ? But what does ...
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