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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; purging... "
Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 - Page 35
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865
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The Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine (now Lord Erskine): When at ..., Volume 2

James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking " her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her " undazzled eyes at...purging " and unsealing her long-abused sight at the foun" tain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole " noise of timorous and flocking birds, with...
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The Pantheon, Or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome: For the ...

William Godwin - Gods, Greek - 1814 - 342 pages
...man [Samson] 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 unsealing her long abused sight [this alludes to the story of St. Paul's conversion] at the fountain itself of heavenly...
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Scraps

Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...invincible locks : methinks I see her, as an eagle, muing her mighty youth, and kindled her unthizzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing...the twilight, flutter about amazed at what she means ;" &c. " Though all the winds of doctrine (he, elsewhere, observes) were let loose to play upon the...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...while the whole noise of timorous and Hocking bints, with those also that love the twilight, Ħlutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." • Gentlemen, what Millon only saw in his mighty imagination, I see in fact ; what lie expected, but...
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The rhapsodist; or, Mes souvenirs, an epistle [in verse].

Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 pages
...enforce, but will absolutely extinguish ? * "Methinks I see her, (the English Nation) "an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itTrain thou thine offspring, mew the generous brood, The future...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle inning her mighty youth, and kindling her unduzzlcd eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself or' heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and Hocking birds, with those also that love...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 3

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1818 - 894 pages
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks 1 see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the...love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she mourns, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. PARRASIUS." "...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 3

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1818 - 890 pages
...strong man after Bleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the...flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flatter about, amazed at what she mourns, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of...
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The addresses, speeches, squibs, songs, &c. which were circulated during the ...

R Cullum - Elections - 1818 - 424 pages
...purging and unsealing your long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly r-idiai.ce ; while the timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what you mean." A more glorious, a more auspicious opportunity never presented itself, than the present...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 28

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1818 - 648 pages
...rousing herselt like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her ' invincible locks ; as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and ' kindling her undazzled eyes at...the full mid-day beam ; purging ' and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of ' heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous...
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