 | Eleanor Honig Skoller - 1993 - 184 Seiten
...but much more specifically, these particular lines from the Areopagitica insist in Drabble's text: 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 undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - 1993 - 292 Seiten
...sight of England as a messiah-nation achieving the full promise of her religious and political destiny: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks 1 see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam;... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 Seiten
...revolutionary, antinomian England (the way "Milton gives manly form to the abstraction of a state: 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks (the laws): methinks I see her as an... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 Seiten
...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 pangs...to become great and honorable in these latter ages. (II, 557) Although the second term is not mentioned, this analogy is between the body of a person and... | |
 | 1995 - 286 Seiten
...not feasible in Europe, where they could readily have succumbed to prison or the rack. A "bohemian" "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 und a /I'd eyes at the full midday beam." For... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1995 - 542 Seiten
...wears an aspect of hopeless senility, but begins to realize the vision of the great Puritan bard: — " 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." In all... | |
 | Nicholas John Cull - 1996 - 301 Seiten
...the height of its Civil War: not degenerated or drooping to a final decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption, to outlive these pangs and wax young again, entering into the truth of prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these later ages. Methinks... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 Seiten
...1865 edition appeared, however, with a long and optimistic quotation from Milton on its title-page: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam . .... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 Seiten
...National Scripturalist. His national pathos found its grandiose expression in the Areopagitica, 1644: "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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...nations like prostitutes. STANLEY KUBRICK, (b. 1928) US filmmaker. Guardian (London, June 5, 1963). 6 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... | |
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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... 
