 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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...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... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...to Book III: Mcthinks I sec in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...on America 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 might}' youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton, on the Liberty of the... | |
 | Lionel Adey - 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...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.49... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 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 I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 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...youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 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... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 pages
...bard: — " 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...youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." In all directions we find a marked progress, in both countries, toward the embodiment... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...Milton's first image seems ambiguous about England's future, his second seems pessimistic about her past. "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;... | |
 | 1995 - 286 pages
..."bohemian" "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 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam." For a statement of... | |
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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 midday beam... 
