...from our immortal Milton such a remonstrance against restrictions of the press as the following : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle nursing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and scaling...

...express. There is, as a single example, that noble sentence familiar to every reader of English : " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, rearing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing...

...they may wake up the Church and the nation from their careless repose in fancied security. Already, " methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle, renewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...

...AMERICA. •'- Methinks I see in my mind a noble puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks...her endazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam." MILTON ON THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. • IT is with feelings of deep regret that I observe the literary animosity...

..."Areopagitica,'' and there anticipated, in words of fire, the defeat of the sect of presbyterians : — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain...

...arguing, much writing — many opinions : for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making ! Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...an eagle mewing her mighty youth ; and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing her long abased sight at the fountain...

...of the first objects of the people. On the aspect of such a period he thus expresses himself: — " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, muing her mighty young, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day heam ; purging and unsealing...

...my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking his invincible locks. Methinks I see her, as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused light at the fountain...

...harvest ; there need not be five weeks had we but eyes to lift up, the fields are white already. REFORM. METHINKS I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks ; methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her dazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam : purging and unscaling...

...famous English prose work, the Areopagitica, must have been known to nil readers of our language : ' Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation...invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, purging and unsealing...