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* This beautiful opening line is not original. It is borrowed, with due acknowledgments, from a once famous music-hall song. [ (return) ]
From an article on "History without Tears":—
"There is no book that gives one a more comprehensive idea of the character of the Byzantine Empire, of the reasons for its decline and its disappearance, than Scott's 'Count Robert of Sicily.'"
Except perhaps Wrongfellow's "King Robert of Paris."
