 Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face,...  English Sonnets: A Selection - Page 31edited by - 1873 - 238 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...images to human nature itself:— Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye; Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy, Ac. NOTES ON MASSINGER. SSd Sonnet HAVE I not overrated GLflbrd's edition of Massinger ?—Not,—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...I'll read, his for his love.' 33 Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows...visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead. Even so my sun one early morn did shine, With all triumphant... | |
 | James Holbrook - History - 1855 - 454 pages
...he penned the sonnet commencing "Full many a glorious morning I have seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows...green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy I" 25* It appears to us a strange dispensation of Providence, that such a perfect nest of loveliness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pages
...But since he died, and poets better prove, Theirs for their style I '11 read, his for his love." Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops...meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack b on his celestial face, And from the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 364 pages
...read, his for his love.' XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy ; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack l on his celestial face, And from the... | |
 | Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...itself rich in the Apollonian metaphor: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountamtops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows...my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendor on my brow. But out, alack! he was but one hour mine, The region cloud hath masked him from... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
...and the alchemical metaphor: "Full many a glorious morning have I seen / Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, / Kissing with golden face the...meadows green, / Gilding pale streams with heavenly alcumy" (ll. 1-4).52 Yet, just as this vision of natural beauty is soon to be obscured by the appearance... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...the most positive connotations: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.6 of the crnccro, the conquistadores, and the tercio, there being a clear correlation between... | |
 | Bryan Homer - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 484 pages
...steeds to water at those springs. On chaliced flowers that lies. Cymbeline, act 2, scene 3 46. Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops...Kissing with golden face the meadows green. Gilding with pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Sonnets, 33 47. See, see, King Richard doth himself appear... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...("Kissing with golden face" [3]), broaching and then concealing the possibility of moral culpability: "Anon permit the basest clouds to ride / With ugly...hide, / Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace" (33.5-8). The rhyme scheme divides the poem into three quatrains and a couplet, but the rhetoric and... | |
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