| Nicholas John Cull - History - 1996 - 301 pages
...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... | |
| Raymond D. Tumbleson - History - 1998 - 276 pages
...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... | |
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