 | Peter Cunningham - 1852 - 250 דפים
...Almahide. With what manliness and grace of elocution must Hart have delivered the wellknown lines, — I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. upon Nelly, who spoke the prologue " in a broadbrimmed hat and waist-belt," and apologised in the following... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 דפים
...to give me death ? -. Obey'd as sov'reign by thy subjects be, But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Abdalla. This, sir, is he who for the elder fought, And to the juster cause the conquest brought: Till... | |
 | John McDonald - 1852 - 314 דפים
...prejudices were strong, their passions warm, and they were frequently hurried into excesses. " They were as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws...of servitude began — When wild in woods the noble ravage ran." Their courage in surmounting danger, their fortitude in enduring hardships and privations,... | |
 | 1853 - 422 דפים
...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...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." The coquette finds her occupation gone, and she is obliged to speak and act like a reasonable creature... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 660 דפים
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 דפים
...say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, " "Tis so like sense, 'twill serve the turn as well V This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...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 דפים
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 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 which... | |
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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... 
