 | James C. Simmons - 1998 - 276 páginas
...Barnard recalled the mournful first stanza of William Cowper's famous poem about Selkirk: I am the monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the center all around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O, solitude! where are the charms... | |
 | David Selwyn - 1998 - 384 páginas
...surprisingly, in Cowper: When he was again in their company, he could not help remembering what he 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 . . . Another favourite poem was invoked when, writing to Cassandra from their new home in Southampton... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 páginas
...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... | |
 | Lydia Wevers - 2002 - 246 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 páginas
...TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ (1782) 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,... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 2003 - 364 páginas
...with exultation to cry — 98. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), "The Deserted Village." Landing Place at Juan Fernandez. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, yet I very soon felt that utter loneliness is as disagreeable as unnatural; and Cowper's exquisite... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - 2003 - 311 páginas
...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 páginas
.... 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 páginas
...DYER ENGLISH (C. 1543-1607) Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez I am monarch...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,... | |
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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. 
