 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 Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Pàgina 3221839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pàgines
...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...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 and... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 pàgines
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks!' — I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam,' yea ! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 pàgines
...strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks! 1 —I would 'see her, as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam/ yea! spreading forth to the four winds of heaven her long-abused and fettered pinions, superbly floating... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...puissant 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...at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and... | |
 | 1858 - 498 pàgines
...herself like a strong man, after sleep, and shaking her in\incible locks, was seen as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day oeam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight, at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." Noble... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1842 - 540 pàgines
...strong man after sleep, " and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."* Scotland having received free institutions from England, returns the obligation by holding up an example... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1842 - 544 pàgines
...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle " nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her uudazzled eyes at " the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance."* Scotland having received free institutions from England, returns the obligation by holding up an example... | |
 | 1843 - 548 pàgines
...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, musing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance." Then too would be realized, what the inspired poet sang three thousand years ago ; — " Happy is that... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...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 long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pàgines
...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...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 and... | |
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