| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...already. REFORM. 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 dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unscaling... | |
| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...latter 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 : methinks...youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,... | |
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...herself, 38 CROMWELL. like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks!' — I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam,' yea ! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions,... | |
| Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...none—' rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks! 1 —I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam/ yea! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions,... | |
| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Conduct of life - 1840 - 224 pages
...Methinks," says he, " 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 mid-day beam; purging and unsealing... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...sonorous voice, " Mcthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks...as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing their long-abused sight at the... | |
| 1858 - 498 pages
...nation, rousing herself like a strong man, after sleep, and shaking her in\incible locks, was seen as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day oeam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...latter 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: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Forensic orations - 1842 - 540 pages
...latter 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 ; methinks I see her as an eagle " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at " the full mid-day beam ; purging and... | |
| Washington Irving - Short stories, American - 1843 - 400 pages
...AMERICA. "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...an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON OK THE LIIIKIITY OF THE PRESS. IT is with feelings... | |
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