 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...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 116by John Milton - 1835 - 976 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...their orbs, bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evening or morning? " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty young, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidcst and sublimest points of controversy and new invention,...my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong roan after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : mcthinks I see her as an eagle muing... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption...Methinks I see in my mind, a noble and puissant nation arousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption...Methinks I see in my mind, a noble and puissant nation arousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...greatest design that could be attempted to make a church or kingdom happy. *** When a city shall be as if were besieged and blocked about, her navigable river...my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : iut-thinks I see her as an eagle... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pages
...again, entering the glorious ways of truth and " prosperous virtue, destined to become great anoj " honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see, "...invincible locks: methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her " undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging '' and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...prosperous virtue, destined to become great and " honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see, <e in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing "...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her " undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging " and unsealing... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and 'wrinkled skin of corruption,...Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousting herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 pages
...degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but (c casting off the old and wrinkled skiu of corrup" tion, to outlive these pangs, and wax young " again, entering...invincible locks: methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her " undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging " and unsealing... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 634 pages
...pangs and wax young again, enter" ing the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, des" tined to become great and honourable in these latter ages....invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mu* ing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at " the full mid day beam; purging and unsealing... | |
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