 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; purging...  Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 - Pagina 35door Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1823 - 518 pagina’s
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; ni cthinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the...envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and sehisms. *• c MILTON. NEXT to civil liberty, in the order I have laid down, comes personal liberty.... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pagina’s
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her 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 her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...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 ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | William Godwin - 1824 - 526 pagina’s
...they can scarcely imagine a race of intellectual creatures, "like an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance b." They for themselves rather resemble that " noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...Eouth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day earn ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." ART. II. — The Works of Sir John Suckling, containing his Poems, Letters, and Plays, 18mo. London,... | |
 | 1823 - 684 pagina’s
...youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eye* at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love tic twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble, would prognosticate... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pagina’s
...strong man^iier sleep, gnd 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 her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | 1827 - 684 pagina’s
...youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,...twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. Amer. Edit. Vol. II. pp. 63, 64. Could our extracts be consistently extended, our readers would not... | |
 | 1831 - 642 pagina’s
..."rousing herself as a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks — as an eagle mewing her mighty 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, while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pagina’s
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her like an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the...flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, nutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects... | |
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