I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Works - Side 224af Walter Scott - 1923Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1826 - 506 sider
...politically, the ideal of individual independence dreamed of by the poet, and be in their national capacity, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the lordly savage ran. As free as nature first made man, The characteristic outlines of this people, in... | |
| 1820 - 398 sider
...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...began, When wild in woods, the noble savage ran." Would it be believed that this is preceded by the two following lines. " Obey'd as sovereign by thy... | |
| George Canning - 1828 - 456 sider
...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...began, ... When wild in woods the noble savage ran." , md Noble and swelling sentiments!—but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas!—but... | |
| Walter Scott - 1885 - 400 sider
...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...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Granadn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 996 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1835 - 336 sider
...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... | |
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