| 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
...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself,...purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those... | |
| 1847 - 662 pages
...sentiment that we utter these harsh truths ; for, to speak in Milton's sonorous voice, " Mcthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself...invincible locks: methinks I see her, as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...nohle and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincihle locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty...and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day heam ; purging and unsealing her long-ahused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while... | |
| 1858 - 498 pages
...herself like a strong man, after sleep, and shaking her in\incible locks, was seen as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day oeam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." Noble... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1842 - 540 pages
...strong man after sleep, " and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused " sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."* Scotland having received free institutions... | |
| Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of doubt. "DK" ENGLISH WRITERS OB AMERICA. "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself...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 OK THE LIIIKIITY... | |
| 1843 - 548 pages
...hundred years ago ; — " Methinks I see 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, musing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...his genius, at length (to accommodate a magnificent figure of his own), " mewing," like " an eagle, her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam" of sacred inspiration—" purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly... | |
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