 | 1924 - 296 sidor
...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, 38 Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove, How soon... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 sidor
...Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, 10 Never hear the sweet music of speech ; I start at...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, 15 Their tameness is shocking to me. Society, friendship, and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 sidor
...sages have seen in thy fnce ? 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...sweet music of speech, — I start at the sound of rny own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted... | |
 | James William Lowther Ullswater (1st viscount) - 1925 - 374 sidor
...fear of man and will hardly move out of the way ; in fact, to use the words of Alexander Selkirk : The beasts that roam over the plain My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. On the 3rd of July the King paid a visit to Rugby School, to open the fine... | |
 | 1926 - 780 sidor
...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 tameness is shocking to me. Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the... | |
 | 1926 - 748 sidor
...desert island! With the words put into Selkirk's mouth by the poet Cowper, who is not familiar? — I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. Society, Friendship, and Love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon... | |
 | Thomas Cox Meech - 1927 - 1204 sidor
...compare him with Alexander Selkirk (the original of Robinson Crusoe), who cried in his loneliness: I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. In response to requests from people of various shades of thought Lord Rosebery heard the sound of his... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 sidor
...solitude ! what are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 92 I am out of humanity's reach ; I must finish my journey...sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. — Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon men ! Oh ! had I the wings of a dove, How... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1996 - 332 sidor
...again revealingly reshaped from its source, this time lines spoken by Cowper's supposed "Selkirk": The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with...indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.51 "Crusoe" ignores Cowper's particular satiric point here that the insulting... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 sidor
...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...unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. 16 Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon... | |
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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. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the... 
