 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 Defender - Page 701855Full view - About this book
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...harvest ; there need not be five weeks had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already. REFORM. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unscaling her long abused sight at the fountain... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...need not be five weeks had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already. REFORM. METIIINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle miring her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam: purging and unsealing... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...these emphatic terms: " Methinks I see a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks...mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 430 pages
...is crime." —Letter on a Regicide Peace. P. 153, 1. 8. Thought, like an eagle soaring in his prime. her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling...at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | 1839 - 256 pages
...on AMERICA. " Methinks I see in my mind a noble 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 endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1840 - 224 pages
...Milton be as a prophecy, to which she shall answer as the accomplishment—" Methinks," says he, " I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her longabused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks! 1 —I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam/ yea! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks!' — I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam,' yea ! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
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