 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...'twice ten degrees askance,' and carry us back to the dark ages? Would he punish the reading public " 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strongman after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing... | |
 | Martina Mittag - English literature - 2002 - 280 pages
...Pamphleten Scotts durchscheint und in Miltons ambivalentem gendering der Nation fortgeführt wird: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herseif like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks. 29 Die Verlagerung vom konkreten... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off me old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young...and prosperous virtue, destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
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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... 
