 | 1817 - 398 pagina’s
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would lit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained... | |
 | 1817 - 736 pagina’s
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in ft tone which would fit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woodi the noble savage ram But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained... | |
 | 728 pagina’s
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would fit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base taws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...or splendid: I am as free as Nature first made man, 1 Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. I — There with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pagina’s
...v, say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pagina’s
...not* say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new, produced...made man, ^ Ere the base laws of servitude began, > wild in woods the noble savage ran. ) — 'Tis but because the living death ne'er knew. They fear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new, produced...bulky, and many images either just or splendid: I am at free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, V When wild in woods the noble... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pagina’s
...not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, "Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand and the new produced...bulky, and many images either just or splendid : i I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pagina’s
...disdain, to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXL 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 Granada. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he... | |
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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. 
