 | 1848 - 744 pagina’s
...erudition, not to be compared to the little finger of the younger Scaliger, who can truly say — I am monarch of all I survey ; My right there is none to dispute. Himself not blameless, he had a vixen of a wife, of whom (thanks to the manuscript notes of Burraan... | |
 | John Davis - 1803 - 470 pagina’s
...the dwelling of our host, I could not help thinking that he might justly exclaim with Selkirk : " I'm monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centra all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the b ute." B 4 The morning passed away not... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 310 pagina’s
...DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. I. I AM-monarch of all/1 survey, • My fight there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, J am lord 'of the fowl and the brute. Oh solitude 1 where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 220 pagina’s
...imagination left poor reality in the back ground. All is not gold that glitters, Rattle. 'Tis true, " I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute:" but, alas! I, like other sovereigns, find that the lap of dignity is not * ' a bed of roses," nor royal... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pagina’s
...idritten by ALEX. SELKIRK, during Aife solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez. 4\ I AM monareh of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From i he eentre all Pnund to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the eharms,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 390 pagina’s
...WRITTEN B'. r ALEXANDER SELKIRK; DURING HIS SOLITARY ABODE IN THE ISLAND OF JUAN FERNANDEZ. I. 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 cf the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better... | |
 | Emily Taylor - 1820 - 286 pagina’s
...island; but more, I think, to be pitied than he: for Hobinson, you know, could very well say, " I am monarch of all I survey: My right there is none to dispute: From the centre all round to the sea, I an lord of the fowl and the brute." . ttNow Columbus was a " monarch" too ; but then he was the king... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1820 - 364 pagina’s
...FOE. rii to the imagination in contemplating him as king and owner of every thing about him; " I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute/' Among the striking passages of the work may be mentioned the encounter with the wolves and bears in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagina’s
...to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode on the Island of Juan Fernandes. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; *rom the centre all around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh ! solitude ! where are... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pagina’s
...lo be atrmen lty Alexander Selkirk, during kit Sdilary Abode in the bland of Juan Fernandtz, I. I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute , From the centre all round to the seft, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms, That sages have seen... | |
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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. 
