 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, Than...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Page 240by William Cowper - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...with painful irony: "From the centre all round to the sea / I am lord of the fowl and the brute. / Oh, solitude! where are the charms / That sages have seen...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
...personal weakness and moral blame, sign of ill-deserved status, sign of blindness, delusion, and folly, O Solitude! Where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? (Cowper)2 But do the charges stick? Are the "reasons" given sound? I want to probe the logic of these... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 pages
...Webster, who was in fine «pirits, uttered, in his deepest bass tones, the welltnown lines, — " ' O Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ?'" The evening of Tuesday I dined with MrChase, the Secretary of the Treasury, of whom 1 painted a... | |
 | Sture All n - 1997 - 116 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen...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... | |
 | James C. Simmons - 1998 - 276 pages
...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,...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. Once again Barnard's faith sustained him. "I was now a Robinson Crusoe again; but began to be more... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 pages
...is none to dispute: From the centre ali around to the sea. I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Diane Jacobs - 2001 - 336 pages
...the horrid Butcheries that are hourly committed in Paris[.] I fear not their knives and would rather dwell in the midst of alarms than reign in this horrible place." 43 And surely Eliza would have preferred danger to her stultifying safety in a position as distant... | |
 | Lydia Wevers - 2002 - 246 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen...midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. These are Cowper's 'Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk', whose famous account of his... | |
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