 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth - Literary Collections - 1990 - 404 pages
...(71) below. 68 PY 194) See TopN 2:302. Temperate intoxications. RS 146, D 12.5, {69} (Morning) "Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye." "jocund Day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." Tennyson's "stammering thunder.' Herrick's "tempestuous... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit, Jan Johann Albinn Mooij - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 234 pages
...characteristic property of poetic metaphor. Shakespeare begins one of his sonnets (33) with the lines: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding the pale streams with heavenly alchemy. SAMUEL... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...liberties, most profoundly those of inner, perhaps inaccessible, vision. NOTES 1 In Shakespeare's sonnet 107 ('Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul / Of the wide world'), line 5, 'The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured', has been glossed as a reference to the climacteric... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 pages
...phenomenon, as he describes it first with a distinct luxury of adjectival and verbal expressiveness: 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 heav'nly alchemy, Anon permit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...Sonnet 33. The Friend appears to have returned. Is this enough to win the poet's forgiveness? 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; 5 Anon permit... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...specialist in elixirs of fertility. For contemporaries, alchemy had 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,... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
...is embellished by the common sun — king — gold correspondence 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... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - Drama - 1997 - 180 pages
...described in the lines over their real-time reception. So in the echoing first lines of sonnet 33, Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, a momentary temporal marker ("Full many a glorious morning") becomes, instead, the direct object of... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 428 pages
...waves)] renders nature. Presumably the desired fusion obtains in two citations from Shakespeare: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovreign eye, and There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. Arnold's syntax... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Wordsworth classics - 2000 - 684 pages
...spirit. ... It is by this, that [Sh.] . . . still gives a dignity and a passion to the ob[19] jects which he presents. Unaided by any previous excitement, they burst upon us at once in life and in power. . . . As of higher worth, so doubtless still more characteristic of poetic genius does the imagery... | |
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Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace... 
