 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...  Ecclesiastical history, a course of lectures - Page 601by William Jones - 1838Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 560 pages
...glorious ways of truth and prosperou* virtue, destined to become great and honorable in these latter 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: methinks I see her as an eagle muing... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * ' * 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, showing... | |
 | 1852 - 618 pages
...awake.'1 But dismissing -this illustration, we will close with another from the same author : — ." 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 mueing... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - Europe - 1852 - 456 pages
...do I recognise the lineaments of the offspring in Milton's painting of our English ancestors — " 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 muing... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...labourers, to make a knowing people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies I — Metkinks 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 528 pages
...from our immortal Milton such a remonstrance against restrictions of the press as the following : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: niethinks I see her as an eagle nursing... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. * * 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 renewing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...sinewy to uiscour-e, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * Alcthinks 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 lier as an eagle mewing... | |
 | James Osborne Putnam - Benefices, Ecclesiastical - 1855 - 12 pages
...his mind rested, in that sublime rhapsody, when even his genius, was kindled with unwonted fires. " Methinks I see in my mind, a noble, and ''puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong 1 man after sleep, and shaking her invincible 1 locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle,... | |
 | 1855 - 892 pages
...gone !' 'Loved ye that Pope ?' , ' He was our church's pride, And Rome's most Holy Soil !' Itratoirais 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 muing... | |
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