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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... "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 445
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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
...ages. 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her " undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging " and unsealing...
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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
...Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like the strong man [Samson] after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks...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...
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Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...in a strong burst of eloquence, " a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like the strong man after sleep, and shaking her 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...
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The rhapsodist; or, Mes souvenirs, an epistle [in verse].

Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 pages
...only will not 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,...
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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ..., Volume 22

Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...ages. Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble ami puissant nation rousing herself, like a stiong man alter sleep, and shaking her 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...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 3

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Eighteenth century - 1818 - 890 pages
...Meihinks I see, in my mind, a noble puissant nation rousing herself like 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...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...AMERICA. * " Methinks I see in ray mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks...an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON on the Liberty of the Preis. IT is with feelings of...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...latter ages. 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes3 at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...latter ages. 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...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...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methiiiks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. IT is with feelings of...
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