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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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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1847 - 568 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 mumg her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 7; Volume 29

Methodist Church - 1847 - 668 pages
...unworthy sentiment that we utter these harsh truths ; for, to speak in Milton's sonorous voice, " Mcthinks I 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 their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * Methinks I see in uiy hap to die, Well bury Ч in a Christmas pie, And...every lad is wond'rous trim, And no man minds his la sec her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
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Vanguards & Followers: Youth in the American Tradition

History - 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...muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam." For a statement of Milton's hold on the new American imagination, cf....
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Vanguards & Followers: Youth in the American Tradition

History - 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...an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her und a /I'd eyes at the full midday beam." For a statement of Milton's hold on the new American imagination,...
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 29 1875

New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - New England - 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...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam." In all directions...
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Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign against American "Neutrality ...

Nicholas John Cull - History - 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...
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History of Political Ideas: The new order and last orientation

Eric Voegelin, Athanasios Moulakis - Philosophy - 1997 - 332 pages
...National Scripturalist. His national pathos found its grandiose expression in the Areopagitica, 1644: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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...her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674)...
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Early Modern Liberalism

Annabel Patterson - History - 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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