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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 289

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im. He was engaged in this manner duringone of his evenings at home, when he was suddenly stabbed by a shoe-makers knife ; and though the assassin was never discovered, the blowwas supposed to have been connived at by some persons who hadpersuaded the cobbler to risk his awl in the dangerous… … Drusus is stabbed, and expires gracefully. lost a more devoted son ! he arranged his toga in becoming folds, andbowing to circumstances—bowing, perhaps, to the audience as well—hegracefully expired. CHAP. XXIV.] THE FRANCHISE OF THE ITALIANS. 255 The Italians, being deprived of the support of…

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