 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude I where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell...journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech — I start at the sound of my own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with Indifference... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 374 pages
...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...midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. ,. . Oh solitude ! where are the charms, ;' That sajres have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, ;, ^ 2. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone ; Never hear tlje sweet musick... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...lord of the fowl and the brute. O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy facel Better dwell in the midst of alarms, . • Than reign...this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, Must finish mj journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.... | |
 | 802 pages
...may exclaim — Then welcome, my wild Ulster farms ; My kernes — though all rude he the race : "• Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place !' I've absolutely almost reached the limits of my paper in every meaning of the dissyllable, and not... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 438 pages
...the sentiment, which the poet hu attributed to Alexander Selkirk, in his solitary dominions. "Rather dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." To such as are engrossed by the active bustle the necessary meetings of competitors in the pursuit... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1831 - 444 pages
...in the sentiment, which the poet h» attributed to Alexander Selkirk, in his solitary ions. "Itathcr dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." To such as are tngrossed by the active bustle ofl*. the necessary meetings of competitor! in the pursuit... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute, O solitude ! what are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 92 I am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1853 - 868 pages
...it was writ by the poet — " Oh, Solitude ! where are the charms Thnt sages have seen in thy race ' Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." STRUCK DY * KLAW. a fearful gorge opened up as we coasted along, through which the wind moaned dismally.... | |
 | Joseph Matkin - 1993 - 512 pages
...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... | |
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Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. 
