 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1842 - 540 Seiten
...ways of " truth and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honour" able in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble " and puissant nation...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... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 Seiten
...Milton's first image seems ambiguous about England's future, his second seems pessimistic about her past. "Methinks I see her as an Eagle mewing her mighty...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... | |
 | Nicholas John Cull - 1996 - 301 Seiten
...entering into the truth of prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these later 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. Wheeler-Bennett claimed these words... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...nations like prostitutes. STANLEY KUBRICK, (b. 1928) US filmmaker. Guardian (London, June 5, 1963). 6 Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 Seiten
...1865 edition appeared, however, with a long and optimistic quotation from Milton on its title-page: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam . . . '" Russell,... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 Seiten
...National Scripturalist. His national pathos found its grandiose expression in the Areopagitica, 1644: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - 1997 - 154 Seiten
...rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her like an eagle mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full noon-day beam; methinks I see her scaling and improving her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...Areopagitica Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant natlon rousing herself like a strong man er 7465 Areopagitica Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,... | |
 | Raymond D. Tumbleson - 1998 - 276 Seiten
...earlier celebrates London as "a City of refuge, the mansion house of liberty" (340) and rhapsodizes that "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks" (344). Rudimentary biographical criticism... | |
 | N. A. M. Rodger - 1999 - 754 Seiten
...Spain and the Netherlands, and within fifty had restored England to the ranks of the great powers: 'I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam."2 APPENDIX I CHRONOLOGY This is a summary of known naval operations, mainly but not only English,... | |
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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... 
