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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 104

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the poet, as to any other source. The following lines refer tothe state of Appius, when taken home, after the death of Virginia :— One stone hit Appius in the mouth, and one beneath the ear, And ere he reached Mount Palatine he swooned with pain and fear.His cursed head, that he was wont to hold so… … CHAP. Vm.J THE TRIBUNATE. 81 the market-place must have rendered it difficult for an artist of the dayto have taken his likeness, after the carrots, whirling about his head,had settled in his hair, the rich oils having given to his Roman nose atouch of grease, and the eggs thrown by the populace,…

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