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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... "
Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical ... - Page 320
by John Milton - 1809
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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Will Fisher - 2006 - 94 pages
...puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after a sleep, shaking her invincible locks" and "purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heav'nly radiance." In this passage, Milton clearly imagines England as none other than the regenerated...
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Milton on Education: The Tractate of Education, with Supplementary Extracts ...

Oliver Morely Ainsworth - 2007 - 392 pages
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

Philip Schwyzer - 2007 - 244 pages
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To Which Is Added the ...

Anon - 2008 - 544 pages
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The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern ...

John Witte - 2007 - 25 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Me thinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."169 Part of the point...
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Oliver Cromwell - Or - England's Great Protector

Henry William Herbert - 2008 - 448 pages
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