 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like senu 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new, produced...splendid : I am as free as nature first made man, j Ere the base laws of servitude began, f When wild in woods the noble savage ran. J — Tia but because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...of Cowley on another book, . 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour .HIM the grand and the new, produced many sentiments either...splendid : I am as free as nature first made man, .-> A Ere the base laws of servitude began, LS-^*- '^t-^Usnr)/ts\i, When wild in woods the noble savage... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...imitation of Cowley on another book, many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images cither just or splendid : I am as free as nature first made...Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — "Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, ,TU s0 like sense, 'twill serve the turn aa well? This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...many 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... | |
 | 1820 - 398 pagina’s
...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 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.... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 456 pagina’s
...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." , md Noble and swelling sentiments!—but such as cannot be reduced into... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 400 pagina’s
...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 laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Granadn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 996 pagina’s
...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 of servitude began, *' When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Noble and swelling sentiments ! but such as cannot be reduced into practice.... | |
 | 1844 - 440 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
