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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 166

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asudden desire to cheer, a propensity still evinced by a modern mob inthe presence of any absurdity. The excitement at length broke out into a general demand for adance, and a shout arose similar to the unmeaning cry of Hornpipe! that is heard in a modern theatre on the first performance of a… … CnAP. XIV.J PYRRHUS ENTERS ITALY. 139 Pyrrhus will soon put an end to all our merriment. The words ofMeto seemed too prophetic; for Pyrrhus had no sooner arrived, than, on

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