 | Natalie Melas - 2007 - 308 pagina’s
...William Cowper s "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk" that articulates this melancholy quite precisely: 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... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Willard - 2007 - 310 pagina’s
...African slavery divine. The poet [William] Cowper represents Robinson Crusoe in these familiar lines: I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute, From the center all round to the sea. I am the lord of the fowl and the brute. But when Crusoe saw... | |
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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. 
