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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. "
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 Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND O? JUAN FERNANDEZ. 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,...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during hit solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez, I AM monarch of all I survey, , My right there is none to dispute ; From tho centre all round to the sea, 1 am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh solitude ! where are the charms,...
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Female Robinson Crusoe: A Tale of the American Wilderness ...

1837 - 304 pages
...within my presence. I had also the priceless blessings of health and unrestrained liberty. CHAPTER VII. I am monarch of all I survey, , My right there is none to dispute. CoWFER. A SURPRISE. YES, I felt that I was free. I could, and did play all sorts of fantastic and antic...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK. DURING Iii3 SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OP JUAN FERNANDEZ. I AM monareh 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. O Solitude ! where are the eharms,...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...written by Alexander Selkirk, duringhia solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez.*— CUWPEB. 1. 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. O solitude ! where are the charms,...
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Sabbath Recreations: Or, Select Poetry of a Religious Kind

Emily Taylor - 1839 - 306 pages
...SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. 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...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...SUPPOSED TO BE WRIi'lEN BY ALEXANDER 8ELEIRE DURDTG HIS BOLTTARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OP JUAIt FERNANDEZ. 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. O solitude ! where are the charms...
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Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe

Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...possession of," with "none to dispute sovereignty or command with me" (139). William Cowper's famous lines, "I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute," are imagined spoken, not by Robinson Crusoe, but by the self-marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, long...
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Literature, 1991-1995

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 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...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1897-1960) British Labour politician. Quoted in Aneurin Bevan, vol. 1 , ch. 1, Michael Foot (1962). 5 I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. WILLIAM COWPER, (1731-1800) British poet. "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk," I....
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