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" ... 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 sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking... "
Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent ... - Page 134
by Elegant extracts - 1812
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we...
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Eight Historical and Critical Lectures on the Bible

John Prince - Bible - 1846 - 490 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms."* There was a person who lived during the latter part * Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing....
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Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting ..., Volume 1

Hugh Swinton Legaré - Statesmen - 1846 - 652 pages
...the fountain itself of heavenly radiance — while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about amazed at what she means. Such was that memorable epoch in the history of man, the Declaration of American Independence — such...
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Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels ..., Volume 1

Hugh Swinton Legaré - United States - 1846 - 642 pages
...the fountain itself of heavenly radiance — while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about amazed at what she means. Such was that memorable epoch in the history of man, the Declaration of American Independence — such...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of I knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city ? I Should ye set an oligarchy...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, an be jolly ; Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Tho * * Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung UR and yet springing daily in this city ? Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it,...
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The British Millennial Harbinger and Family Magazine, Volume 2

Churches of Christ - 1849 - 588 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. While the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." We next proceeded to investigate the subject of the church's funds, their mode of collection, and the...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." Milton's prose works abound with passages vieing in origin and eloquence with these. They are also...
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A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the ...

Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...splendid vindication of that freedom by Milton. the twilight, flutter about amazed at what she moans, and in their envious gabble, would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. * * * And now the time in special is, by privilege, to write and speak what may help to the further...
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