 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 660 pages
...to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. 1 am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods die noble .savage ran. Conquest of Grenaaa. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded... | |
 | 1853 - 428 pages
...stories about his school-boy days, and perhaps winds up a speech with the oft-quoted lines of Pope — " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base luws of servitude began, , When wild in woods the noble savage ran." The coquette finds her occupation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in wooda the noble savage ran." " 'Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 pages
...endeavour to ascertain how far he is to be trusted." 20* VOL. i. CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT. I am aa free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Granada. While Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure... | |
 | Adolph Erman - 1855 - 686 pages
...sclavische Ehrfurcht den Personen" ausschliefst, ist ein allgemeiner Zug Zustände und primitiven Zeiten: „Ere the base laws of servitude began, „When wild in woods the noble savage ran." f.' ., . sein. Nicht weniger bemerkenswert ist die Achtung, welche die Bauern ihren Gutsherren beweisen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 400 pages
...commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. I am as free as nature first made man, Kre the base laws of servitude began. When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of (Irai.ndn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...of splendid dubious imagery such as may be struck out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Dryden's natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. There is a pleasure In being mad which none but madmen know. Don Sebastian.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pages
...which Dryden puts into the mouth of one of the most extravagant of his heroes, that " They would be free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Noble and swelling sentiments ! but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas ! but which... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pages
...Almahide. With what manliness and grace of elocution must Hart have delivered the well-known lines, — I am as free as nature first made man, 'Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The attraction, however, of the play rested mainly upon Nelly, who spoke the prologue in "a broadbrimmed... | |
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 
