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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 Letters Apostolic of Pope Pius IX.: Considered, with Reference to the ...

Travers Twiss - Church and state - 1851 - 324 pages
...nation 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 midday beam, purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly light ; while the whole noise of...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...nation 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 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 works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...fee in my mind a noble and puiilant Nation roufing herfelf like a ftrong man after fleep, and making her invincible locks : Methinks I fee her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unfcaling her long abufed fight at the fountain...
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Report of the American Home Missionary Society

American Home Missionary Society - Congregational churches - 1851 - 736 pages
...have done its perfect work. Our beloved country then, in the words of glorious old Milton, shall be "as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes, at the full midday beam, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle, showing 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 voice...
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The Home Missionary, Volumes 24-26

Home missions - 1852 - 1038 pages
...Gospel shall have done its perfect work. Our beloved country, then, in the words of Milton, shall be " as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes, at the full midday beam, at the f'junkm itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flockig birds, with...
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John Milton: the Patriot and Poet

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...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 and unsealing her long abused sight at the fount itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of...
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An historical and statistical account of New South Wales, Volume 1

John Dunmore Lang - Gold mines and mining - 1852 - 702 pages
...strong man after sleep, and 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 and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise...
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The Scottish magazine, and churchman's review, Volume 1

1852 - 618 pages
...a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her 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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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...his genius, at length (to accommodate a magnificent figure of his own,) " mewing," like "an eagle, her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam" of sacred inspiration—"purging and unsealing her longabused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly...
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