 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
 | Lionel Adey - 1986 - 294 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...long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.49 By making England holy. Cromwell and his fellow Puritans ensured that future generations... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 pagina’s
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 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 midday beam. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation;... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pagina’s
...man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks (the laws): methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam' " [Early Lectures, t, 222-23]). Moreover, these glosses then lead to one of the great summaries of... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pagina’s
...England's future, his second seems pessimistic about her past. "Methinks I see her as an Eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 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 midday beam." In all directions we find a marked progress, in both countries, toward the embodiment of the grand... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 pagina’s
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sect and schisms.... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 pagina’s
...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full noon-day beam; methinks I see her scaling and improving her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance,...whole noise of timorous and flocking birds — with them also that love the twilight — hover around, amazed at what she means, and in their useless gabble... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 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 midday beam. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 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 midday beam . . . '" Russell, An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution (London, 1865),... | |
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