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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 75

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he only difficultyarising on the subject of the proposed restoration of Tarquin, which hissubjects would not listen to ; and, though he and Porsenna had hithertorowed in the same boat, the latter found it absolutely necessary tothrow the former overboard. Rome was compelled to return the… … Cluelia and her Companions escaping from the Etruscan Camp. a bold plunge for their liberty, jumped into the Tibers bed, and swam likea party of ducks to the other side of the river. Claelia ran home in herdripping clothes, but, instead of a warm reception, she was met with awet blanket, for her…

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