 | 1889 - 1032 pages
...arrived at the station where we had agreed to meet, I at once telegraphed. 10. 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)... | |
 | 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 of the fowl and the brute. / Oh, solitude! where are the charms / That sages have seen in thy face? / Better dwell in the midst... | |
 | Sture All n - 1997 - 116 pages
...patois. One rose hearing two languages, one of the trees, one of school children reciting in English: 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,... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 pages
...Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. And his name was Selkirk — Alexander Selkirk. PART I 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, solitude! where are the charms That... | |
 | David Selwyn - 1998 - 384 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 classification system for British wetlands, nor should there be:... | |
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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. 
