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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... "
Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical ... - Page 320
by John Milton - 1809
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Early Modern Liberalism

Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...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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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...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...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her were formerly told. 1377 'The Resignatlon' This was my country and it 7465 Areopagitica Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...
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Confederate Veteran, Volume 11

Confederate States of America - 1998 - 624 pages
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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric and Literature, Volume 16

Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...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 and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and...
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Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception

Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance', Complete Prose Works of John Milton (gen. ed. D. Wolfe (8 vols. in 10,...
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British Literature 1640 - 1789: An Anthology

Robert DeMaria, Jr. - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 976 pages
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A Hubert Harrison Reader

Hubert Harrison - History - 2001 - 510 pages
...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full noonday 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...
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