 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
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 374 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...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,' &c., &c. ; and yet here we find Warburton pillaging without any acknowledgment, as if he were safe... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,' &c., &c. ; and yet here we find Warburton pillaging without any acknowledgment, as if he were safe... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 400 pages
...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mning her mighty youth, and kindling her tmdazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,' &c., &c. ; and yet here we find Warburton pillaging without any acknowledgment, as if ho were safe... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1856 - 460 pages
...'rousing herself, like a strongman after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ! ' I would ' see her as an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ! ' yea, spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly... | |
 | Europe - Europe - 1856 - 402 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methiuks I see her as an eagle, mewing 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 voice of timorous and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...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. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air calm and pleasant, it were an injury and a sullennet... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 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...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." ' . ' During this middle period of Milton's life, when absorbed with political and theological polemics... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Sermons, American - 1858 - 468 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...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1858 - 478 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...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1860 - 120 pages
...— inexhaustible ; and yet, its essential spirit or genius, towering in her strength and majesty, " as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam," on Cader Idris, or Helvellyn, or Ben Macdhui, can look abroad with complacency on her giant progeny.... | |
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