| Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 996 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 דפים
...Cowley on another book, " 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serve the turn ns well ? This endeavour öfter the grand and the new produced many sentiments either...and many images either just, or splendid : I am as freu ns Nature first made man, ) Kre the пане laws of servitude began. When wild in woods the noble... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
| George Canning - 1835 - 650 דפים
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 דפים
...disdain, to which the self-conceit 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 Grenada. THE Earl of Menteitb, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
| George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 דפים
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 דפים
...; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serveulie ohnson 1 Ere the base laws of servitude begun, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. J 'Tis but because... | |
| 1837 - 570 דפים
...distance of twenty yards. Tom never went out with gentlemen — " he did not like them :"— " He was as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." It is but to be expected that in those lonely parts of the country such instances of rude abandonment... | |
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