 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * Mcthinks ere for current ; he might have quitted his dignity without like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; mcthinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * ʀ A> like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; mcthinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and wax young again : entering the glorious ways of truth and virtue ; destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks I see, in my mind, a... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar 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 ; methiuks I see her as an eagle, showing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...sinewy to uiscour-e, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * Alcthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see lier as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazxled eyes at the full mid-day beam... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 pages
...from our immortal Milton such a remonstrance against restrictions of the press as the following : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: niethinks I see her as an eagle nursing... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pages
...country, "not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and wax young...to become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks'I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,... | |
 | James Osborne Putnam - 1855 - 12 pages
...points of controversy, and new invention, it " fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled " skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and " wax young again, entering the glorious ways of 11 truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become "great, and honorable in these latter ages." Was... | |
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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... 
