...written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez,*—Cowper. 1. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none...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 dwell in the midst of...

...goats (I, 173) Stanza No. 1 from Cowper's “Verses Suppposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk”: I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center around to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. It is Cowper, therefore, who merged...

...Alexander Selkirk, whose claim to fame rests on the fact that he was the prototype of the fictional Crusoe. I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute. Thoreau has Crusoe in mind here, not Selkirk. With no hesitation he accepts the confusion of Crusoe...

...have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. With respect to landscapes, — "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the...

...I turned to take a bird's eye view of my surroundings, and I exclaimed as Crusoe did on his island: "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." 1 except, I mentally added, a marauding party of Mexicans or Indians, and now and then a wild cat....

...Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk during His Solitary Abode on the Island of Juan Fernandez 23 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 charms That...

...WRITTEN BT WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, During his solitary Abode in the Cellar of the House of Commina. I AM monarch of all I survey ; My right there is none to dispute ; From the breakfast-tune round to the tay, I see neither Saxon nor brute. Ü Solitude ! where 's the attractions,...

...her shoes, lay down, pulled the blankets over her head and listened to her hammering heart. I'm the monarch of all I survey. My right, there is none to dispute. That was the way the rat walked. In the close darkness she must have dozed, for suddenly she was sitting...

...have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheel barrow. With respect to landscapes, "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the...

...possession of," with "none to dispute sovereignty or command with me" (139). William Cowper's famous lines, "I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute," are imagined spoken, not by Robinson Crusoe, but by the self-marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, long...