Read full poem →one Sir Robert Howard in his list of the Members of
Parliament between 1661 and 1678.
Dictionary Entry
A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
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Common Phrases
. parliamentparliament europeanparliament british
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Poetry examples for “parliament”
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Read full poem →Argument to persuade all the Grand Juries in
England to petition for a New Parliament."
This pamphlet gave brief and uncomplimentary
Read full poem →own Time ; Masson's Life of Milton ; Christie's
Life of Lord Shaftesbury ; Cobbett's Parliament-
ary Debates ; Grey's Debates ; Memoirs of Sir
Read full poem →A Parliament of Knaves and Sots,
Members by name, you must not mention,
Read full poem →witchcraft, astrology, ghosts, and apparitions, were then the universal belief
of both xhe great vulgar and the small, nay they were even the parliament
iary, the national creed; only some early-enlightened minds saw and con-
Read full poem →An act of parliament passed in the year 1737, which
forbad the representation of any performance not pre-
Read full poem →And, Gaveston, uliless thou be reclaimed,
As then I did incense the parliament.
So will I now, and thou shalt back to France.
Read full poem →mathematical comparison. In the outgoing, or War, *
Parliament, Southern Ireland—i.e., the anti-British
constituencies—had ninety representatives, of whom
Read full poem →The Irish Nationalist Party had shown its marked hostility to the
enfranchisement of women in any Irish Parliament and so a few
impulsive Irish women had thrown things at Nationalist M.P.'s