 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 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 such... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 474 pages
...his genius, at length (to accommodate a magnificent figure of his own,) " mewing," like "an eagle, her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam" of sacred inspiration—"purging and unsealing her longabused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1850 - 874 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 unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 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 mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 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... | |
 | 1851 - 560 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 unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise... | |
 | American Home Missionary Society - 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...fee in my mind a noble and puiflant Nation roufing herfelf like a ftrong man after fleep, and making her invincible locks : Methinks I fee her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unfcaling her long abufed fight at the fountain... | |
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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 mid-day beam... 
