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...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...

...makes the rising sun a person. And Shakespeare provides different images to show us a glorious morning, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. After these fragments, ruthlessly torn from two of England's greatest poets, the reader may expect...

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...of the dawn: 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; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face[.] (33-1-6) But...

...can afford : 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, And from the forlorn world...

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...better friend. •I Full many a glorious morn have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy... William Shakespeare Sonnet XXXII I Contents List of Illustrations ix Author's Foreword xi I. TO SEE...

...Sonnet 33 ! 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, And from the forlorn world...