 | David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...schism - culminates in a simultaneous awakening of the godly nation and her revolutionary historian: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks" (n, 557-8). Like Samson, and like... | |
 | Paul Gilroy - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 284 pages
...and unassimilable populations. . . alien wedges in the heartland of the state (Enoch Powell, 9.4.76). Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks (Milton). Racism has been described... | |
 | Ellen Spolsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...sight of England as a messiah-nation achieving the full promise of her religious and political destiny: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks 1 see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazl'd eyes at the full midday beam;... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...revolutionary, antinomian England (the way "Milton gives manly form to the abstraction of a state: 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks (the laws): methinks I see her as an... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs and wax young...to become great and honorable in these latter ages. (II, 557) Although the second term is not mentioned, this analogy is between the body of a person and... | |
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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... 
