 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...ON AMERICA. " Methinks I see in my mind a noble puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks...an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. IT is with feelings of... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...fatal decay ; but casting ofT iheold and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and wax ress of this maid Marian's head. Her coif is purple,...play of Henry Vlll., Anne Boleyn, at her coronation, like an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pages
...school, if we have only escaped the ferula, to come under the fescu of an imprimatur ? — Milton. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing, her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pages
...if we have only escaped the ferula, to come under the fescu of an imprimatur ? — Milton. Methiriks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...harvest ; there need not be five weeks had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already. REFORM. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks;' methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unsealing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of doubt. DK ENGLlSH WRlTERS ON AMERICA. « Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing,...eagle!, mewing her mighty youth » and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. » MtLTON OW THE LtBEKTY OP THE PRESS. ^ It is with feelings... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...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 truth 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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 pages
...they may wake up the Church and the nation from their careless repose in fancied security. Already, " 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 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,...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and scaling... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pages
...express. There is, as a single example, that noble sentence familiar to every reader of English : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, rearing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing... | |
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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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam... 
