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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... "
So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby, as Relates to Her Domestic History ... - Page 206
by Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 242 pages
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

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 I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...to. * * ' * 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, showing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing...
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The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nineteenth Century

Henry Winter Davis - 1852 - 466 pages
...ancestors— " 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...an 'Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain...
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Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost

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 I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing...
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Washington Irving: History, Tales & Sketches (LOA #16): The Sketch Book / A ...

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...
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Selected Prose

John Milton - 1985 - 468 pages
...invincible locks: 146 Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing 1 * 7 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also...
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Hymns and the Christian Myth

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 I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam: purging and unsealing...
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The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius

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...an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain...
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Figures in a Renaissance Context

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 beam;...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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 I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. John Milton (1608-1674)...
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