 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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.... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 pages
...dining-room door — to arise from the table and with his hands on his huge host's shoulders, exclaim: Oh, solitude, where are the charms, That sages have...thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than live in this horrible place. Webster and Clay had, in Washington, intrusted to Ewing an important Whig... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 pages
...Diagram or analyze : " I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute ; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute." • UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1. (a) What is meant by northwest passage ? (b) In what important respect... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...Cowper, "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk." The poem continues, with painful irony: "From the centre all round to the sea / I am lord...midst of alarms / Than reign in this horrible place." 24. Walden: or, Life in the Woods, chapter 2, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For." 25. "Robinson... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pages
...people find solitude unappealing, and would exclaim with William Cowper Oh Solitude! where are thy charms, That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. — "Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Alexander Selkirk"" or at least echo his gentler pronouncement... | |
 | Sture All n - 1997 - 116 pages
...languages, one of the trees, one of school children reciting in English: I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place... While in the country to the same metre, but to organic instruments, handmade violin, chac-chac, and... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 pages
...MONARCHS I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute: From the centre ali around to the sea. I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh,...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. — William Cowper. "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk. During His Solitary Abode... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - 1998 - 406 pages
...appal 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.162 The very emptiness of the desert, as... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...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 to dispute; From the centre...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
...his 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... | |
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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. 
