| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...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 - 554 pages
...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 - 244 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...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 - 458 pages
...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 - 530 pages
..."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 - 160 pages
...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 - 344 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 - 382 pages
...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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