 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Areopagitica. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air calm and pleasant, it were an injury and a sullennet... | |
 | Europe - 1856 - 402 pages
...puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methiuks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and...fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole voice of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about amazed... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...famous English prose work, the Areopagitica, must have been known to all readers of our language : .' Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzlcd eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...of that treatise, for example, he uses the same metaphors developed in the invocation to Book III: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance . . .8 The blind Samson redeemed by the... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...treatise, for example, he uses the same metaphors developed in the invocation to Book III: Mcthinks I sec in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself...at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance . . .* The blind Samson redeemed by the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...present day; being the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kill. English Writers on America Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her might}' youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton, on the Liberty of the... | |
 | Lionel Adey - 1986 - 294 pages
...does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is. first to his Englishmen? . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...at the full midday beam: purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.49 By making England holy. Cromwell and... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 pages
...found again in that memorable and justly famous expression of Milton in his prophetic role: Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing...her 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...repetition of unpalatable truths. Edith, Lady Summerskill (1901-1980) British Labour politician Nationalism Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...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;... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...vision, we have been told94 — was ventured on a particularly memorable occasion in Areopagitica (1644): Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing [ie, moulting, renewing! her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday... | |
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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... 
