 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 That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign...  Poems by William Cowper ... - Page 161by William Cowper - 1814 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...From lhe centre all round to the sea, J am lord of the .fowl and the brute. Oh solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of bumanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sneet music at speech,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...midst of alarms. Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott, William Yates - Chile - 1824 - 560 pages
...disagreeable as unnatural ; and Cowper's exquisite lines again served me — " Oh, solitude ! where are thy charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place." And I repeated over and over the whole of the poem, till I saw two of my companions of the morning... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...lord of the fowl and the brute. O solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face T ' Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. II. I am oat of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 0 solitude! where are the charms That sages have teen i» tby fact:? It 1 am out of humanity Yreach,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude \ where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. l am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...Fernandez. 1. 1 AM monarch of all I survey, 1 am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh solitude ! where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face? Better...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, 1 must finish my journey alone; My right there is none to dispute; From... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone ; Never hear the sweet music of speech... | |
 | Robert Grenville Wallace - 1825 - 346 pages
...commend and that which Alexander Selkirk pathetically apostrophizes : — " • O, solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.' Dear to my bosom is the unexpected drop-in of a friend or neighbour — sweet, to be in the world or... | |
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