 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain : Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, abo that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. Though all the winds of doctrine... | |
 | Marcus Cunliffe - History - 1959 - 232 pages
...her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of rimorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." A fine piece of spread-eagle prose. The facts, though, were incontrovertible whatever the interpretations... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise1™ of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognoslicat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the 3 49 BJM fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds. . .flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Business & Economics - 1983 - 484 pages
...her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth . . . while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds ... in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." 6 January 1. On 12 June 1786 George Robert Fitzgerald was executed for the murder of Patrick McDonald.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms" (II, 558). A rejection of the past is suggested both by the participle "mewing" and by those participles... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - Philosophy - 1999 - 332 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sect and schisms.... | |
 | Hubert H. Harrison - Social Science - 1997 - 154 pages
...eyes at the full noon-day beam; methinks I see her scaling and improving her sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds — with them also that love the twilight — hover around, amazed at what she means, and in their useless gabble... | |
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... I see in my mind 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 mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging... 
