 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 492 pages
...the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kiU. ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA. " Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing...methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty yoath, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY or THK PRESR.... | |
 | Eleanor Honig Skoller - 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... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 292 pages
...sight of England as a messiah-nation achieving the full promise of her religious and political destiny: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks 1 see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam;... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pages
...revolutionary, antinomian England (the way "Milton gives manly form to the abstraction of a state: 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks (the laws): methinks I see her as an... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 pages
...wears an aspect of hopeless senility, but begins to realize the vision of the great Puritan bard: — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." In all directions we find a marked progress, in both countries,... | |
 | 1995 - 286 pages
...not feasible in Europe, where they could readily have succumbed to prison or the rack. A "bohemian" "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 und a /I'd eyes at the full midday beam." For a statement... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...Milton's first image seems ambiguous about England's future, his second seems pessimistic about her past. "Methinks I see her as an Eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain... | |
 | Nicholas John Cull - 1996 - 301 pages
...entering into the truth of prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these later ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks. Wheeler-Bennett claimed these words... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...nations like prostitutes. STANLEY KUBRICK, (b. 1928) US filmmaker. Guardian (London, June 5, 1963). 6 Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 pages
...1865 edition appeared, however, with a long and optimistic quotation from Milton on its title-page: 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 undazzled eyes at the full midday beam . . . '" Russell,... | |
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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 midday beam... 
