 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 էջ
...another book, Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn us well? This endeavour after the grand and (he new, produced many sentiments either great or bulky,...Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in wood's the noble savage ran. — Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 էջ
...images either just or splendid : I am as free ae Nature first made man, Ere the hase laws of servitnde began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. —...the living death ne'er knew. They fear to prove it ae a thing that's new : Let me th' experiment before you try, I'll shew you first how easy 'tie to... | |
 | 1826 - 506 էջ
...politically, the ideal of individual independence dreamed of by the poet, and be in their national capacity, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the lordly savage ran. As free as nature first made man, The characteristic outlines of this people, in... | |
 | 1820 - 398 էջ
...in poetry, concealed under heaps of rubbish. Take the following, the result of a careful search : " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...began, When wild in woods, the noble savage ran." Would it be believed that this is preceded by the two following lines. " Obey'd as sovereign by thy... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 456 էջ
...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...began, ... When wild in woods the noble savage ran." , md Noble and swelling sentiments!—but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas!—but... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 400 էջ
...disdain, to which the selfconceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. I am as free as nature first made man. Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Granadn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 996 էջ
...Dryden puts into the mouth >f one of the most extravagant of his 133] heroes, that, " They would be free as nature first made man, " Ere the base laws...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... | |
 | 1844 - 440 էջ
...further ?" — Can she say, with Drydt.n, in some of the noblest lines, in the English language : — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild, in woods, the noble savage ran ? True ! no drudgery is equal to that of Vanity and Vice. The vain, are the slavels of Folly — the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 էջ
...of independence and a hatred of control amounting almost to the sublime rant of Almanzor. " He was as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws...began, "When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 էջ
...Simapo, there is the habitation of an Indian who is member of no tribe. Like the savage in Dryden, He is as free as nature first made man Ere the base laws...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Ouravagare belonged to a distant tribe, which had been dispersed and destroyed by war. He took refuge... | |
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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. 
