 | Joseph Matkin - 1993 - 512 pages
...home. I could not help thinking of Cowper's poem on the subject. "O Solitude where are the charms which sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, than reign in his horrible place." At the back of the settlement are some enormous caves in the hill sides, & in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 BoBe; LiTB; NAEL-1. NIP; NOBE; OBSC; PoEL-1; (1. 1—8) 24 When I think of my own native land. In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 pages
...dining-room door — to arise from the table and with his hands on his huge host's shoulders, exclaim: Oh, solitude, where are the charms, That sages have...thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than live in this horrible place. Webster and Clay had, in Washington, intrusted to Ewing an important Whig... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...with painful irony: "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...midst of alarms / Than reign in this horrible place." 24. Walden: or, Life in the Woods, chapter 2, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For." 25. "Robinson... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pages
...people find solitude unappealing, and would exclaim with William Cowper Oh Solitude! where are thy charms, That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. — "Lines Supposed to Have Been Written by Alexander Selkirk"" or at least echo his gentler pronouncement... | |
 | Sture All n - 1997 - 116 pages
...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 charms That sages have...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place... While in the country to the same metre, but to organic instruments, handmade violin, chac-chac, and... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 pages
...there is none to dispute: From the centre ali around to the sea. I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, solitude! where are the charms That sages have...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. — William Cowper. "Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk. During His Solitary Abode... | |
 | Lydia Wevers - 2002 - 246 pages
...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 charms That sages have...midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. These are Cowper's 'Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk', whose famous account of his... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 pages
...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 charms That sages have...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; I start at... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pages
...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 charms That sages have...sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. The beasts, that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see; They are so unacquainted with... | |
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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 in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the... 
