 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pagina’s
...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 of servitude began, "When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pagina’s
...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 of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Ouravagare belonged to a distant tribe, which had been dispersed and destroyed... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 650 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." Noble and swelling sentiments! — but such as cannot be reduced into... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1835 - 336 pagina’s
...of ourselves, and have nobody whatsoever to exert the least control over our actions. We'll remain free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, And wild in woods the noble savage ran. Stpp a little, gentlemen, and let us consider your case, thinks... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 576 pagina’s
...further, and endeavour to ascertain how far he is to be trusted." 20* VOL. i. CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild iu woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Granada. While Quentin held the brief communication... | |
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 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/' Noble and swelling sentiments! — but such as cannot be reduced into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serveulie turn as well > T - 1 Ere the base laws of servitude begun, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. J 'Tis but because... | |
 | 1837 - 570 pagina’s
...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 of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowlcy on another book, 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serve the turn aa well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...am as free as Nature first made man, ) Ere the base lawn of servitude began, ', When wild in woods the noble savage ran. J - 'Tis but because the living... | |
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