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Rabsheka, in the satire of Absalom and Achitophel, by Dryden and Tate, is meant for Sir Thomas Player.
Rabshakeh was the officer sent by Sennacherib to summon the Jews to surrender, and he told them
insolently that resistance was in vain. (2 Kings xviii.) Next him, let railing Rabsheka have place-Raby (Aurora). The model of this exquisite sketch was Miss Millbank, as she appeared to Lord Byron when he first knew her. Miss Millpond (a little farther on in the same canto) is the same lady after marriage. In canto i., Donna Inez is an enlarged portrait of the same person. Lord Byron describes himself in the first instance under the character of Don Juan, and in the last as Don José. Races Goodwood Races. So called from Goodwood Park, in which they are held. They begin the last
Tuesday of July, and continue four days, of which Thursday (the cup-day) is the principal. These races
are very select, and admirably conducted. Goodwood Park was purchased by Charles, first Duke of
Richmond, of the Compton family, then resident in East Lavant, a village two miles north of Chichester. |
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