 | Caroline Henderson - 2003 - 300 pagina’s
.... 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 - 2007 - 544 pagina’s
...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 to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are... | |
 | Sura College of Competition - 2004 - 116 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Anders Hallengren - 2004 - 278 pagina’s
...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 dispute; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pagina’s
...Shirazi (1193-1260). The Condensed Edition of Thoreau's WALDEN 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." When I took up my abode in the woods, I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2005 - 181 pagina’s
...by the English poet, William Cowper (1731-1800), Verses Supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk: '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.' Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721)... | |
 | Margaret Butcher - 2006 - 314 pagina’s
...now & perhaps I'll have to start the Works & that means no more writing. (8:30 am) Have you ever sung "I am Monarch of all I survey my right there is none to dispute?136 Probably, but not with the same truth that I can now say it for even the Parson and his... | |
 | Henry Taylor - 2006 - 253 pagina’s
...typescript of Taylor's memoirs, "Across the Plains." 3. Taylor's quote is not accurate. It should read, "I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute." It is from William Cowper's Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk (1782). Selkirk had... | |
 | Richard Ambrosini, Richard Dury - 2006 - 408 pagina’s
...Thoreau's quotation of William Cowper's lines from "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk," "I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute" (Thoreau 1854: 82), are also alluded to by Stevenson," and its sentiment is echoed by a very similar... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...of Alexander Selkirk" are haunting fables of personal loneliness. The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk 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. 0 solitude! where are the... | |
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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. 
