...Dying, 1651) (De Doctrina Christiana) (Tractate on Education, 1644) ' fraSfi> (Areopagitica, 1644) Wf Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging...

...Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC., 3 1 August to 3 September 2000. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...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...

...reason itself," argued Milton, utilising the imagery of a poet to bring his political message alive: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...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...

...new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages, Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself,...

...entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these 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 looks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing...

...entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these 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 looks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing...

...torpor and the false consciousness that it supported. A new, dynamic citizen body would be created: 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks.'59 Historians like Christopher Hill...

...Blake may well have in mind, as Bloom suggests, Milton's vision of an awakening nation in Areopagitica: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks."8- Yet Milton goes on to compare the...

...body was memorably represented in Milton's image of England as an awakening Samson in Areopagitica: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks" (CPW 2:557-58). The figure of an awakening...

...utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." Do all this, said Milton, and "I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Me thinks I see her as an eagle muing...