 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863
...faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sayes, and of worthies? 1. Mcthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like astrong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the 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... | |
 | 1866
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by 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. Me thinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867
...betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the 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 17 rousing herself... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868
..."betokns" 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...the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue, [which are] destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages. Methinks I see in my mind... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1868
...us the vision of this same poet, as seen by his prophetic eye .jnore than two hundred years ago : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing like a strong man after a sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle,... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 324 pages
...betoken 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...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... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869
...betokens 3 us not degenerated, not drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the 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... 
