The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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Page 17
... brother of Basilius , is a proud and am- bitious woman ; who , from the long period of celibacy which had preceded the marriage of Basilius , had begun to consider the crown of Arcadia as the lawful property of her own family , and her ...
... brother of Basilius , is a proud and am- bitious woman ; who , from the long period of celibacy which had preceded the marriage of Basilius , had begun to consider the crown of Arcadia as the lawful property of her own family , and her ...
Page 22
... brothers , who come to offer their services . Anaxius , scarcely inferior to any knight in the world in prowess , and almost the equal of Pyrocles and Amphialus , is proud , tyrannical , and cruel ; esteeming himself little less than a ...
... brothers , who come to offer their services . Anaxius , scarcely inferior to any knight in the world in prowess , and almost the equal of Pyrocles and Amphialus , is proud , tyrannical , and cruel ; esteeming himself little less than a ...
Page 23
... brothers resolve to put their prisoners to death , but are stayed in the prosecution of their cruel design , by the power of love , each of them conceiving a passion for one of their three victims . Their love , however , being ...
... brothers resolve to put their prisoners to death , but are stayed in the prosecution of their cruel design , by the power of love , each of them conceiving a passion for one of their three victims . Their love , however , being ...
Page 24
... brothers of Anaxius , and enters into an engagement with Anaxius himself . The following extract is vividly descriptive of all the fury and bustle of the battle : 66 5 Pyrocles , whose soule might well be separated from his body , but ...
... brothers of Anaxius , and enters into an engagement with Anaxius himself . The following extract is vividly descriptive of all the fury and bustle of the battle : 66 5 Pyrocles , whose soule might well be separated from his body , but ...
Page 77
... brother , and next his wife , for reproving his cruelty , and , lastly , runs his own sword into his side as he is get- ting on horseback . What a delightful bloody treat was this for an English audience , if it were ever presented to ...
... brother , and next his wife , for reproving his cruelty , and , lastly , runs his own sword into his side as he is get- ting on horseback . What a delightful bloody treat was this for an English audience , if it were ever presented to ...
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