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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 mid-day beam... "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 104, no. 4, 1960) - Page 408
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...JVIethinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant -patinn, rousing herself like a strong man^iier sleep, gnd shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her...an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 1

Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, musing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

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 I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY...
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The Year Book, of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...

William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter ages — carnalbu color, and her stomacher red, with a yellow...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...
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The Political Text Book: Comprising a View of the Origin and Objects of ...

William Carpenter - Great Britain - 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...
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The Political Text Book: Comprising a View of the Origin and Objects of ...

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...
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

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...an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain...
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The Monthly Repository, Volume 8

Leigh Hunt - Liberalism (Religion) - 1834 - 972 pages
...herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks.' Dream on, great poet — ' Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and...
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The History of England, Volume 5

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...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...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...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle inning her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing...
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