 | William Maginn - 1856 - 374 pagina’s
...famous English prose work, the Areopagitica, must have been known to all readers of our language : ' Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I sec her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 772 pagina’s
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the ways of glorious truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pagina’s
...truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Jfethinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinkg I see her as an eagle nursing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...; 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 rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible : eairle miiinitr hpr miVhtv vonth. counsels... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pagina’s
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pagina’s
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs and wax young...and prosperous virtue destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1859 - 360 pagina’s
...outlive these pangs, and wax young again, and, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, become great and honorable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a great and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pagina’s
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pagina’s
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pagina’s
...health to all we love, onr king shall have his own." CXLVII. — THE AWAKING OF A GEEAT NATION. MILTON. METHINKS I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation...shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her a? an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging... | |
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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... 
