 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined hem, &c. give unto them for thee and for me." Expositors...sanctuary ; others, that it was paid to the empero inning her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...has been frequently quoted, but should never be omitted in any portraiture of this heroic age : — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks. Methinks I see her, as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday 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,...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle!, mewing her mighty youth » and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. » MtLTON OW THE... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...which whole nations fare the worse. what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.l Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | American literature - 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 mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam... 
