Parliamentary Papers, Volume 24, Part 2

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Page 240 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 348 - Mark'd ye his words ? He would not take the crown ; Therefore, 'tis certain he was not ambitious.
Page 345 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs : they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Page 347 - And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud...
Page 240 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 344 - Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Page 243 - ... can it with any propriety be said, that the relation between these rectangles may be expressed by the formula a = a? Or, to take a case yet stronger, when it is affirmed, that " the area of a circle is equal to that of a triangle having the circumference for its base, and the radius for its altitude...
Page 347 - ... the very attempt of this address thus made, and the thought of whom it hath recourse to, hath got the power within me to a passion, far more welcome than incidental to a preface.
Page 347 - Old knights, and over them the sea- wind sang Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down By zigzag paths and juts of pointed rock, Came on the shining levels of the lake.
Page 344 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...

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