 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
 | W. J. Cockburn Muir - Architecture - 1860 - 300 pages
...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 scaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance" John Milton's prose.* Uninverted... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain * Moulting, casting off the old feathers or skin. HERESY AND SCHISM... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 512 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 ; while ' the whole noise of timorous... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - United States - 1863 - 30 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her, as an eagle inning 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 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 mid-day beam; purging and scaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - United States - 1864 - 842 pages
...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...long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radianes, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight,... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 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; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the 3 49 BJM fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - Biography & Autobiography - 1975 - 602 pages
...2d Amer. Ed. (New York, 1845). 2. Cf. Milton, Areopagitica: "Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." 441. To James Fenimore Cooper New York Nov. 30, 1842 My dear Sir Miss Teresa Salazar, the daughter... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Poetry - 1983 - 207 pages
...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...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance . . .* The blind Samson redeemed by the illumination of heavenly grace and the bird soaring to the... | |
 | Lionel Adey - Music - 1986 - 294 pages
...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...long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.49 By making England holy. Cromwell and his fellow Puritans ensured that future generations... | |
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