 | Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 sider
...HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,... | |
 | William Johnstoun N. Neale - 1839 - 940 sider
...utmost wants, and with every nerve fresh braced he returned homewards. CHAPTER VIII. From the mountains all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. CowriR. THE shark is the natural and most detested enemy of the sailor, between which two there exists... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - 1841 - 290 sider
...fail him For no art could avail him. Three Anaptzsts. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea. I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Four Anapcests. At the close of the day when the hamlet is still. Hypermeter of four Anapasts. On the... | |
 | Frederick Hall - 1840 - 202 sider
...Bell, who might exclaim, as Cowper makes Selkirk do, "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute." Mr. B. is a very intelligent, obliging inn-keeper, and is well known to all respectable travellers,... | |
 | William Johnson Neale - 1840 - 458 sider
...nerve fresh braced he returned homewards. 1 THS FLYiau DUTCHMAN. 168 CHAPTER XXXII. From tin! mountains all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. COWPKR. THE shark is the natural and most detested enemy of the sailor, between which two there exists... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 362 sider
...his soln.tr> abode in the ISLAND of JUAN FERNANDEZ. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the...in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 sider
...solitary abode on the island of Juan Fernandez. I. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,... | |
 | Willard Hallam Bonner - 1985 - 142 sider
...Alexander Selkirk": l am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. It is Cowper, therefore, who merged the real and fictional figures for all who followed him. including... | |
 | Joseph Matkin - 1993 - 512 sider
...home. I could not help thinking of Cowper's poem on the subject. "O Solitude where are the charms which sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, than reign in his horrible place." At the back of the settlement are some enormous caves in the hill sides, & in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...Juan Fernandez 23 I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute; From the center y lack, I leave; they pine, I live. (I. 25-30) BLPL; EIL; 0 Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms.... | |
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I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 
