 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...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, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...and kindling their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing their long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and, in their envious gabble, would prognosticate" her decay and dissolution. But the vision is of... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. — Milton. 1. APRIL FOOL... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1841 - 448 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazM at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognostioat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day heam ; purging and unsealing her long-ahused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking hirds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter ahout, amazed at what she means, and in their... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...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 midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pages
...seen as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day oeam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." Noble indeed was the sight — -a nation determined to free itself from hoary thraldom, and glorious... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...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 her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance . . .8 The blind Samson redeemed by the... | |
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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... 
