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" Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? 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... "
Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record - Page 380
by Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1856 - 416 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1830 - 374 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verses; Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...reign in this horrible place'. 2 I am out of humanity's reach* ; I must finish my journey alone* j Never hear the sweet music of speech* ; I start at...own\ The beasts that roam over the plain', My form with indifference see* : They are so unacquainted with man', Their lameness is shocking to me\ 3 Society,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...;, ^ 2. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone ; Never hear tlje sweet musick of speech ; ; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see : They are so unacquainted with man, Ttieir lameness is shocking to me. 8. Societjjj....
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...midst of alarms, . • Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, Must finish mj journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,...own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see. They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen...my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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Literary recreations; or, Scenes from real life

John Young (M.A.) - 1833 - 328 pages
...conceive of it, in his celebrated description of Juan Fernandez : — " O, Solitude ! what are thy charms, That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...music of speech, I start at the sound of my own." The foot of a human being has, perhaps, never yet trod some of the wide extended shores, and mazy forests,...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ..., Volume 7

William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. Society,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pages
...humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey alone : Never hear-the sweet music of speech ; I start at tne sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man,1 Their lameness' is shocking to me. 3 Society,...
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