 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 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...  The Life of John Milton - Page 254by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...used in some similar passages and also in Psalm ciii, 5, as well as on scribal grounds, GU Yule — 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... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...(Areopagitica, 1644) Wf 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...an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...metaphor Milton has also used in Areopagitica, where a nation that has seen reason is like an eagle "kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam;...and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain ... of heavenly radiance."™' The word "undazzled" is significant, for in Areopagitica as in Paradise... | |
 | Social Science - 2006 - 390 pages
...September 2000. 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. John Milton, Areopagitica,... | |
 | Tony Harcup - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 222 pages
...message alive: 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 and unsealing... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 pages
...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:<0 her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | John Witte - History - 2007 - 25 pages
...puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Me thinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and...undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."169 Part of the point... | |
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