 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Anthony W. Marx - 2005 - 288 pagina’s
...enflamed and engulfed the country's people. As John Milton would write in his Areopagitica of 1644, "methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after a sleep." 150 Clearly the nation was being so roused by the drumbeat of alarm,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 2005 - 433 pagina’s
...The National Balance Sheet XX General Reflections Index TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY Chapter I THE REPUBLIC "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; naethinks I see her as an eagle mewing... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 529 pagina’s
...to Samson Agonistes, 1. 41: "Eyeless in Gaza at the Mill with slaves." 8 See Milton, Works, 4:344: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks . . . ." 9 "And Pity, like a naked... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 pagina’s
...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...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 - 2006 - 110 pagina’s
...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 - 2006 - 102 pagina’s
...entering the glorious ways of truth 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 like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible looks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing... | |
 | Clive Holmes - 2006 - 276 pagina’s
...torpor and the false consciousness that it supported. A new, dynamic citizen body would be created: 'Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks.'59 Historians like Christopher Hill... | |
 | Walter S. H. Lim - 2006 - 314 pagina’s
...body was memorably represented in Milton's image of England as an awakening Samson in Areopagitica: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks" (CPW 2:557-58). The figure of an awakening... | |
 | Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 252 pagina’s
...Blake may well have in mind, as Bloom suggests, Milton's vision of an awakening nation in Areopagitica: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks."8- Yet Milton goes on to compare the... | |
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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... 
