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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... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 322
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The speeches of the hon. Thomas Erskine ... when at the Bar, on ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...rousing " herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking " her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling...undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging " and unsealing her long-abused sight at the foun~ " tain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole "...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her, as an eagle, muing her jnighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise...
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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
...rousing " herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking " her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an " eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling...undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging " and unsealing her long-abused sight at the foun" tain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole " noise...
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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
...strong 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...
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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,...
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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
...puissant na ion • rousing herselt like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her ' invincible locks ; as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and ' kindling...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...
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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
...a 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 full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise...
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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
...a 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 full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...and puissant nation rousing herself 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...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 20

Classical philology - 1819 - 572 pages
...zone Obeys thee Childe Harold, Canto iv. St. clxxix. Methinks I see her (England) as an eagle mueing 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...
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