 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 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...  Sketch Book - Page 60by Washington Irving - 1901 - 491 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wingate Thornton - Massachusetts - 1874 - 120 pages
...placed Cromwell at the head of the Commonwealth. With what rapture did Milton witness the resurrection! "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her an eagle reviving her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Law - 1876 - 622 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...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... | |
 | American literature - 1952 - 708 pages
...small divided companies cutting through at every angle of his ill-united and unwieldy brigade . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...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;... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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...her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an eagle muing1M her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...Society No shareholders No commii THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER No. DXCII— JUNE 1926 THE PAST MONTH Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...which washed him away and swept him down precipices, where he was dashed to pieces, and the stream made its way to the Hudson, and continues to flow...identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kill. From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.* THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS... | |
 | Washington Irving, Arthur Rackham, Pat Stewart - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1983 - 52 pages
...which washed him away and swept him down precipices, where he was dashed to pieces, and the stream made its way to the Hudson, and continues to flow...identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kill. THE END 48 RIP VAN WINKLE Coloring Book The Complete fext by WASHINGTON IRVING Renderings txj PAT STEWART... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...found again in that memorable and justly famous expression of Milton in his prophetic role: Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing...her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...vision, we have been told94 — was ventured on a particularly memorable occasion in Areopagitica (1644): Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...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... | |
 | Eleanor Honig Skoller - Feminism and literature - 1993 - 184 pages
...but much more specifically, these particular lines from the Areopagitica insist in Drabble's text: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
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