 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 I see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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 I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: 146 Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing 1 * 7 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at...while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious... | |
 | Lionel Adey - Music - 1986 - 294 pages
...Englishmen? . . . 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 midday beam: purging and unsealing... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...prophetic role: Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks...while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...Areopagitica (1644): 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 [ie, moulting, renewing! her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam;... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...Nationalism 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 midday beam. John Milton (1608-1674)... | |
 | David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...vision of the puissant nation in Areopagitica rousing herself at a critical moment in history like "an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her...sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance" (n, 558). There is of course a significant difference in emphasis: the image from Milton's tract emphasizes... | |
 | Avihu Zakai - History - 2002 - 280 pages
...puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks," or as "an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling...unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self or heav'nly radiance," was similarly convinced that thy Kingdom is now at hand, and thou standing at... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks 1 see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling...undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heav'nly radiance . . .' 6 The image is that... | |
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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... 
