Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 63
seven months,diuing which he is said to have inspired his cohorts by a pun, telling them that they mustnot be tired out until Tyre was entirely their own ; a jeu clc mots that infused the greatestspirit into the Greek columns. His first exploit, however, was taming the horse Bu- 48 LEAVES FROM A… … might as well have been made in reference to Le Petit Ducrctc, or to any other juvenileequestrian prodigy. From Egypt he went to the temple of Jupiter Amnion, where he bribed the priests tosay that he was descended from the gods, so that it was probably the temple of JupiterGammon at which these…
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