 | James C. Simmons - 1998 - 276 sider
...Barnard recalled the mournful first stanza of William Cowper's famous poem about Selkirk: I am the monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the center all around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O, solitude! where are the charms That sages... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 sider
...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... | |
 | Shelly Errington - 1998 - 348 sider
..."monarch-of-all-Isurvey scene," apparently borrowing the phrase from lines attributed to Alexander Selkirk: "I am monarch of all I survey / My right there is none to dispute." One cannot help but think again of Addison's suggestion in the early eighteenth century (quoted above)... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sider
...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 to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 18 Oh! I could thresh his old jacket... | |
 | David Selwyn - 1998 - 384 sider
...remembering what he 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 . . . Another favourite poem was invoked when, writing to Cassandra from their new home in Southampton... | |
 | Lydia Wevers - 2002 - 246 sider
...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 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... | |
 | Keith McMahon - 2002 - 268 sider
...of a recurrent stance of travel writers in the nineteenth century (Pratt 1992, chap. 9). "I am the monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute," is from William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782), Selkirk being... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 sider
...JUAN FERNANDEZ (1782) 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 That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms,... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - 2003 - 311 sider
...reeds, I reckon you know what my mind needs! (R. Kipling) A thing of 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... | |
 | Caroline Henderson - 2003 - 300 sider
.... AUGUST 11, 1935 MY DEAR EVELYN: On this blistering Sunday afternoon I am, like Alexander Selkirk: Monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute.™ There is no one within a mile and a half, and all day I've seen just one person pass by in an old stripped-down... | |
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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. 
