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... Poems: Now First Collected - Page 160by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Howe, William Urwick - English literature - 1846 - 364 pages
...words of Milton—" as a noble and puissant nation rousing herself as a strong man after slee;., or as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." At that period the two of civil and religious freedom, which, now flourishing and bearing fruit, IB... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...like a strong man after slee^p, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mumg 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... | |
| Home and colonial school society - 1849 - 448 pages
...like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle moving her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." The Christian may leave such a prospect to the superbly imaginative poet. He looks for less, and ne... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - Great Britain - 1848 - 334 pages
...as a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself as a strong man after sleep, or as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; " as little indeed as was the glorious restoration which seemed for a time its only fruits. Against... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1849 - 588 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her disabused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. While the whole noise of timorous and... | |
| Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle rnuing 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle, showing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at...fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole voice of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed... | |
| Travers Twiss - Canon law - 1851 - 324 pages
...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...undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly light ; while the whole noise of... | |
| American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1851 - 736 pages
...have done its perfect work. Our beloved country then, in the words of glorious old Milton, shall be "as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes, at the full midday beam, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds,... | |
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