Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam... Life and Times of John Milton - Page 131by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1839 - 798 pages
...language : ' Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...these emphatic terms: " Methinks I see a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance... | |
| United States - 1839 - 558 pages
...young eagle, opened its undazzled eye to the midday sun, and, soaring far aloft, " purged and unsealed her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed... | |
| United States - 1839 - 546 pages
...young eagle, opened its undazzled eye to the midday sun, and, soaring far aloft, " purged and unsealed her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed... | |
| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...already. REFORM. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unscaling... | |
| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks...the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...none—' rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks! 1 —I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam/ yea! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...herself, 38 CROMWELL. like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks!' — I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam,' yea ! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Conduct of life - 1840 - 224 pages
...Methinks," says he, " I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...sonorous voice, " Mcthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks...as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing their long-abused sight at the... | |
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