 | James C. Simmons - Castaways - 1998 - 276 pages
...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... | |
 | Shelly Errington - Art - 1998 - 348 pages
..."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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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... | |
 | Keith McMahon - History - 2002 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 311 pages
...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 - Social Science - 2003 - 300 pages
.... 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... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 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...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,... | |
 | Anders Hallengren - Political Science - 2004 - 278 pages
...patois. One rose hearing two languages, one of the trees, one of school children reciting in English: monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to...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,... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pages
...achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. - William A Ward I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none of dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. - William Cowper... | |
| |
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. 
