 | University of the State of New York - 1868 - 160 pages
...us the vision of this same poet, as seen by his prophetic eye .jnore than two hundred years ago : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing like a strong man after a sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; mcthinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...that a rhythmical movement pervades the Quest prose pieces. This passage has been thus divided :— " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation Rousing hercelf like a strong man after sleep, And shaking her invincible locks ! Methinks I see her an an... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1877 - 492 pages
...country to its best interests, so finely expressed by Lord Sandon, in the eloquent burst of Milton : ' Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking his invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle rousing... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...that a rhythmical movement pervades the dnest prose pieces. This passage ha» been thus divided: — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation Rousing herself like a strong man after sleep. And shaking lier invincible lurks ! Metliinks I see her as an eagle... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 pages
...glorious ways of truth and virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages. 2. Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methiuks I see her as an eagle renewing... | |
 | 1900 - 708 pages
...commonwealth. As the sea is salt, so you are educationists. John Milton said in his great prose work, " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep ; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth." Yes, your... | |
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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... 
