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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 324
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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John Milton: A Biography

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 268 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 fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle, showing her mighty youth and kindling her 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 voice...
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The Home Missionary, Volumes 24-26

1852 - 1038 pages
...Gospel shall have done its perfect work. Onr beloved country, then, in the words of 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 flockbj birds, with...
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The Scottish magazine, and churchman's review, Volume 1

1852 - 618 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mueing her mighty youth, and kindling her 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...
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John Milton: the Patriot and Poet

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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 unsealing her long abused sight at the fount itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of...
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An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, Volume 1

John Dunmore Lang - 1852 - 702 pages
...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 long-ahused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 3

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 312 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, showing 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 voice...
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A History of English Law, Volume 6

Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 752 pages
...its detractors with contempt fell on deaf ears ; and his vision of the nation, " as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her 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...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 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 Areopagitica 1644 Further reading Two detailed books on Milton's...
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Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 35

1952 - 708 pages
...after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an eagle molting and thus renewing 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 noisy...
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