 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 páginas
...there is none to dispute . From the centre all round to the sea, T am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face 1 Better dwell in the midst of alarms. Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...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; Better dwell in the midst of alarms. Than reign in this horrible place. (1. 1—8) 24 When I think... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 páginas
...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 seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than live in this horrible place. Webster and Clay had, in Washington,... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 páginas
...personal weakness and moral blame, sign of ill-deserved status, sign of blindness, delusion, and folly, O Solitude! Where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? (Cowper)2 But do the charges stick? Are the "reasons" given sound? I want to probe the logic of these... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 páginas
...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 seen in thy face? / Better dwell in the midst of alarms / Than reign in this horrible place." 24. Walden: or, Life in... | |
 | Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1995 - 380 páginas
...Webster, who was in fine «pirits, uttered, in his deepest bass tones, the welltnown lines, — " ' O Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ?'" The evening of Tuesday I dined with MrChase, the Secretary of the Treasury, of whom 1 painted a... | |
 | Sture All n - 1997 - 116 páginas
...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 seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place... While in the country to the... | |
 | James C. Simmons - 1998 - 276 páginas
...there is none to dispute, From the center all around 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 alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. Once again Barnard's faith... | |
 | Edward E. Leslie - 1988 - 614 páginas
...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 seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. — William Cowper. "Verses... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - 1998 - 406 páginas
...the mind so much as the contemplation of eternal solitude. Well may another kind of poet exclaim, Oh, solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? for human sympathy is one of the passions of human nature."7 The very emptiness of the desert, as seen... | |
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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. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign... 
