Note 1 — GEORGE CANNING. ON THE POLICY OF GRANTING AID TO PORTUGAL WHEN INVADED BY SPAIN; HOUSE OF COMMONS, DECEMBER 12, 1826.
Reading edition
Note 1, p. 48.
Æolus sits upon his lofty tower And holds the sceptre, calming all their rage; Else would they bear sea, earth, and heaven profound In rapid flight, and sweep them through the air. —Virgil’s Æneid, book i., lines 56–59.