What is the translation if these phrases from chinese to english?

Read the passage from "the lady, or the tiger.” as the youth advanced into the arena he turned, as the custom was, to bow to the king, but he did not think at all of that royal personage. his eyes were fixed upon the princess, who sat to the right of her father. had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature it is probable that lady would not have been there. . the author builds suspense in the passage by

Imi puteti face o argumentare lirica pe de cate ori, iubito de mihai eminescu?

Archaic term which means to rob something from someone