...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...unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.51 "Crusoe" ignores Cowper's particular satiric point here that the insulting "indifference" offensive...

...midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity 's reach , I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech;...indifference see; They are so unacquainted with man, Their lameness is shocking to me. 16 Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I...

...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. Society, friendship, and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would...

...heighten the desolation of a solitary island, when he makes Selkirk, on Juan Fernandez, complain,— * The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are BO unacquainted with man ; Their tamenesa is shocking to me." But these facts are only local and partial...