 | Henry Pitman - 1316 sider
...literal as the sense which even a Robinson Crusoe could attach to the words, he might have sung — " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." Practically, however much of legal prescription or verbal curtailment of power there was, this was... | |
 | 1857 - 904 sider
...to sea, comprehend both continents, and step from star to star ; and looking over all, it can say : "I am monarch of all I survey — my right there is none to dispute." The real possessions of the mind are limited only by its own powers of acquisition. The uncultivated... | |
 | Philips Alston, Katarina Tomaševski - 1984 - 246 sider
...than of rights only. Contrary to Alexander Selkirk's defiant claim in his island of solitude that: "I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute," the usual two-agent rights are not relevant in this case since no one else was there, but he did have... | |
 | Willard Hallam Bonner - 1985 - 142 sider
...goats (I, l73) Stanza No. l from Cowper's "Verses Suppposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk": l am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. It is Cowper, therefore, who merged... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 sider
...have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. With respect to landscapes, — "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the... | |
 | Willard Hallam Bonner - 1985 - 142 sider
...Alexander Selkirk, whose claim to fame rests on the fact that he was the prototype of the fictional Crusoe. I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute. Thoreau has Crusoe in mind here, not Selkirk. With no hesitation he accepts the confusion of Crusoe... | |
 | John Crittenden Duval - 1986 - 322 sider
...turned to take a bird's eye view of my surroundings, and I exclaimed as Crusoe did on his island : "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute."1 except, I mentally added, a marauding party of Mexicans or Indians, and now and then a wild... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk during His Solitary Abode on the Island of Juan Fernandez 23 y have, And I am rich with little store. They poor, I rich; they beg, I g center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude! where are the charms That... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - 1993 - 504 sider
...cannibal feasts, that compared, for instance, to that poem by Cowper which we all learnt at school, I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute, compared to that poem, the novel, any novel... | |
 | 1889 - 1032 sider
...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)... | |
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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. 
