 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen...shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh,. had I the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 710 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, 0, had I the... | |
 | John Howell - 1837 - 154 pages
...his solitary abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez. I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestowed upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish' my journey...shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 472 pages
...alludes to this remarkable circumstance in the soliloquy he puts into the mouth of Robinson Crusoe, — " I am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me." The common crocodile is the species well known as frequenting the rivers of Africa. In the central... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O, had I the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...place, where he lived several years. ThU gave rise to the celebrated romance of Robinson Crusoe. 2, I am out of humanity's reach, • I must finish my...indifference see : They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. , 3. Society, friendship, and love, f Divinely bestowed upon man^ f Oh... | |
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Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with... 
