Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 76
boys in those days just as they are atpresent. After his fathers death, he conquered Darius, and took Tyre after a siege ofseven months, during which he is said to have inspired his cohorts by a pun, tellingthem that they must not be tired out until Tyre was entirely their own ; a Jeu de mots 48… … attempt, upon which Philip burst into tears, and predicted that his son would conquerdistant kingdoms, a prophecy that might as well have been made in reference to LePetit Ducrow, or to any other juvenile equestrian prodigy. From Egypt he went to the temple of Jupiter Amnion, where he bribed the…
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