 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...the following, the result of a careful search : " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude 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 - Great Britain - 1828 - 456 pages
...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." , md Noble and swelling sentiments!—but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas!—but... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1823 - 996 pages
...extravagant of his 133] 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... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 440 pages
...noblest lines, in the English language : — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1835 - 650 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...member of no tribe. Like the savage in Dryden, He is as free as nature first made man Ere the base laws of 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...amounting almost to the sublime rant of Almanzor. " He was as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, "When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - Great Britain - 1836 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...and beautiful theories of the social compact, or of some antecedent antediluvian era,' " Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Yet are we, after all, for the established order of things, because it is order. Possibly a change... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 pages
...rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Grenada. THE Earl of Menteitb, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
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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. 
