 | William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 sider
...see me giving to Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland their most valuable minerals and metals. In Europe ' I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute.' The Scandinavians, the Hartz mountains, the Alps, and the Pyrenees are mine ; nor is my territory less... | |
 | George D Watt - 1855 - 444 sider
...everybody else destroyed ! What & glory it would be to him ! He could then exclaim, like Alexander Selkirk, I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. It is a glory I never want to have. The religious world scandalize the Deity by saying He is quite... | |
 | 1855 - 654 sider
...savage King might have looked forth proudly upon his broad domains, and like Selkirk hare exclaimed, " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." But even in that hour, on the mighty scroll of coming events were cast the shadows of a power, which,... | |
 | Fred Folio - 1855 - 442 sider
...political and business relations, Lucinda could with emphasis adopt the language of the great Selkirk, " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." Only upon a solitary occasion — and that before the days of the honeymoon were ended — did it happen... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1856 - 420 sider
...supposed must have occurred to him even now, after so long a period of acquaintance with solitude. "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. 0, solitude ! where are the charms... | |
 | 1856 - 754 sider
...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 ; •Sober! Surn«. 441 Gin Wtbrt. 3m 'Jlngefid)t beg Sole*. MmSAt'ger. unerforfAter ©runt Con meinem... | |
 | William Peter Strickland - 1856 - 418 sider
...exclaim, when from some craggy peak he looked down upon the interminable forest, with Alexander Selkirk, " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." None knew, who knew anything of the locality, which was obtained from Indians and hunters who sometimes... | |
 | Collection - 1856 - 120 sider
...When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow. CAMPBELL. Alexander Selkirk. I AM monarch of all I survey My right there is none to dispute ; 0 solitude ! -where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of... | |
 | James Pierson Beckwourth - 1856 - 562 sider
...station. He would suffer no one on deck, and seemed literally to apply the poet's words to himself, " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." We continued our course down the river, encamping on shore every night. We had a jovial time of it,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 sider
...left an aching void, The world can never fill. VERSES, Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute. O Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? But the sound of the church-going... | |
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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. 
