| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 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, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 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...an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...nohle and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincihle locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day heam ; purging and unsealing her long-ahused sight at the fountain... | |
| 1858 - 498 pages
...seen as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day oeam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." Noble indeed was the sight — -a nation determined to free itself from hoary thraldom, and glorious... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...sonorous voice, " Mcthinks 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 their undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Forensic orations - 1842 - 574 pages
...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at " the full mid-day beam ; purging "and unsealing...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."* Scotland having received free institutions from England, returns the obligation by holding up an example... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Forensic orations - 1842 - 540 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 " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at " the full mid-day beam ; purging and... | |
| Child rearing - 1843 - 548 pages
...hundred years ago ; — " Methinks I see 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, musing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
| Washington Irving - Short stories, American - 1843 - 400 pages
...AMERICA. "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 endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON OK THE LIIIKIITY... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...soar to. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man oves, and hills aud field), Woods or steepy mountains yields. And we will »it mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing... | |
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