...Barnard recalled the mournful first stanza of William Cowper's famous poem about Selkirk: I am the monarch of all I survey, My right 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...

..."monarch-of-all-Isurvey scene," apparently borrowing the phrase from lines attributed to Alexander Selkirk: "I am monarch of all I survey / My right there is none to dispute." One cannot help but think again of Addison's suggestion in the early eighteenth century (quoted above)...

...appal 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.162 The very emptiness of the desert, as...

...clothed with majesty and awe, His mind his kingdom and his will his law. Truth' (i 782) I. 403 17 1 am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none...round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 18 Oh! I could thresh his old jacket till 1 made his pension jingle in his pockets. on Samuel Johnson's...

...surprisingly, in Cowper: When he was again in their company, he could not help remembering what he 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 . . . Another favourite poem was invoked when, writing to Cassandra from their new home in Southampton...

...his memory receiving interference from Cowper's supposed "Selkirk," who asks a different question: "Oh Solitude! where are the charms /That sages have seen in thy face?" Or could he not finish the line from "I wandered lonely as a cloud" because Wordsworth had not yet...

...known that they do not have to be directly cited. Cowper's half-castaway, half-colonist complained: Oh. solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy faceBetter dwell in the midst of alarms. Than reign in this horrible place.19 Colenso's panic, expressed...

...of a recurrent stance of travel writers in the nineteenth century (Pratt 1992, chap. 9). "I am the monarch of all I survey, my right there is none to dispute," is from William Cowper's "Verses Supposed to Be Written by Alexander Selkirk" (1782), Selkirk being...

...I reckon you know what my mind needs! (R. Kipling) A thing of beauty is a joy tor ever (J. Keats) I am monarch of all I survey My right there is none to dispute Prom the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute (W. Cowper) There is no universal...

.... 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...