 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 Seiten
...harvest ; there need not be five weeks had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already. REFORM. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...shaking her invincible locks;' methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 394 Seiten
...has been frequently quoted, but should never be omitted in any portraiture of this heroic age : — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 Seiten
...new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old the society of bordelloes. Thus from the lauréat honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 Seiten
...story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of doubt. DK ENGLlSH WRlTERS ON AMERICA. « Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing,...shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle!, mewing her mighty youth » and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. »... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | 1836 - 694 Seiten
...express. There is, as a single example, that noble sentence familiar to every reader of English : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, rearing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 Seiten
...they may wake up the Church and the nation from their careless repose in fancied security. Already, " methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation,...shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 Seiten
...which whole nations fare the worse. what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 Seiten
...new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs,...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.l Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | 1838 - 488 Seiten
...of the first objects of the people. On the aspect of such a period he thus expresses himself: — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, muing her mighty young, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day heam ; purging... | |
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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 midday beam... 
