 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...He conquered all the regne [realm] of Pemynye That whilom was y-cleped Scythia." (Ib.) 5. Me thinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. (Milton.) EXERCISE 67. §§ 156-158.... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 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... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 pages
...degenerated or " drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs and wax young again, entering...virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these later agesV- Methinks I see in my mind," he continued, " a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | John Waddington - 1874 - 756 pages
...degenerated, not moping to a fatal decay, but, casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to ontlive these pangs and wax young again, entering the glorious...destined to become great and honourable in these latter days. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...these pangs and wax young again, entring the glorious waies of Truth and prosperous vertue destin'd to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a 15 noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible... | |
 | 1874 - 610 pages
...language may be read in the light of the present day more hopefully even than in that of his own: — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man alter sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | 1874 - 712 pages
...her early vigor does she seem. To her we may apply the sublime language of Milton's Areopagitica : " Methinks, I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; a nation not slow and dull, but of... | |
 | 1874 - 404 pages
...her early vigor does she seem. To her we may apply the sublime language of Milton's Areopagitica : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; a nation not slow and dull, but of... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive the pangs and wax young again ; entering the glorious...Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation IT rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see... | |
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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... 
