 | Roslynn D. Haynes - 1998 - 406 pages
...the mind so much as the contemplation of eternal solitude. Well may another kind of poet exclaim, Oh, solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? for human sympathy is one of the passions of human nature."7 The very emptiness of the desert, as seen... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...clothed with majesty and awe, His mind his kingdom and his will his law. Truth' (i 782) I. 403 17 1 am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none...round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 18 Oh! I could thresh his old jacket till 1 made his pension jingle in his pockets. on Samuel Johnson's... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1996 - 332 pages
...memory receiving interference from Cowper's supposed "Selkirk," who asks a different question: "Oh Solitude! where are the charms /That sages have seen in thy face?" Or could he not finish the line from "I wandered lonely as a cloud" because Wordsworth had not yet... | |
 | Lydia Wevers - 2002 - 246 pages
...line of verse that comes to Colenso on the hill above the Whirinaki is interesting. The full text is: I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none...round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms... | |
 | Keith McMahon - 2002 - 268 pages
...of a recurrent stance of travel writers in the nineteenth century (Pratt 1992, chap. 9). "I am the monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute," is from William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782), Selkirk being... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - 2003 - 311 pages
...reeds, I reckon you know what my mind needs! (R. Kipling) A thing of beauty is a joy tor ever (J. Keats) I am monarch of all I survey My right there is none to dispute Prom the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute (W. Cowper) There is no universal... | |
 | Caroline Henderson - 2003 - 300 pages
.... AUGUST 11, 1935 MY DEAR EVELYN: On this blistering Sunday afternoon I am, like Alexander Selkirk: Monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute.™ There is no one within a mile and a half, and all day I've seen just one person pass by in an old stripped-down... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none...round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,... | |
 | Anders Hallengren - 2004 - 278 pages
...patois. One rose hearing two languages, one of the trees, one of school children reciting in English: monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to...round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. - William A Ward I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none of dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. - William Cowper... | |
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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. 
