...hundred years ago ; — " Methinks I see a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, musing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...

...nations like prostitutes. STANLEY KUBRICK, (b. 1928) US filmmaker. Guardian (London, June 5, 1963). 6 Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing...

...National Scripturalist. His national pathos found its grandiose expression in the Areopagitica, 1644: "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation...her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzl'd eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing...

...1865 edition appeared, however, with a long and optimistic quotation from Milton on its title-page: Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam . . . '" Russell,...

...rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her like an eagle mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full noon-day beam; methinks I see her scaling and improving her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly...

...Areopagitica Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant natlon rousing herself like a strong man er 7465 Areopagitica Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...

...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...

...Spain and the Netherlands, and within fifty had restored England to the ranks of the great powers: 'I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam."2 APPENDIX I CHRONOLOGY This is a summary of known naval operations, mainly but not only English,...

...being the identical stream known by the name of the Kaaters-kill. ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA Mi-thinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing...an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her endazzled eyes at the full midday beam. MILTON, ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. It is with feelings of...

...appeared: Methinks I see in my mind's eye a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks...at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and...