| Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 pages
...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 - Geology - 1855 - 686 pages
...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... | |
| David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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 - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...walk but he. Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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 - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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 which... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Elementary) - 1858 - 348 pages
...hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover, or some captive maid : They... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...Hart have delivered the well-known lines, — I am as free as nature first made man, 'Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...bulky, and many images either just or splendid: I am as free as Nature first made.man'. lire the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.' — "J'is but beca'use the living death ne'er knew, They tear to prove It as a thing that's new: Let... | |
| English periodicals - 1863 - 612 pages
...commencing. The bold warrior tells us he would be free — " free as Nature first made Man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." He emancipated himself from convention ; he set himself above kings ; he resolved all questions by... | |
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