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
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 sider
...great or bulky, and many images eithe just or splendid : * I am as free as Nature first made man, F.re the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. * — >Tis but because the Living death ne'e knew, They fear lo prove it as a thing that's new I et... | |
| 1841 - 742 sider
...with it. Eh 1 what ] Just listen to this, Jeremiah Woful,' and with a theatrical air he repeated, ' " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran !' That's John Dryden — one of his Almanzor flights; and I've heard Betterton roll and thunder It... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 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...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 266 sider
...extinguishing their destroyers. But return we to our herds feeding beside the still waters. CHAPTER XIX. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. DRYDEN. WHEN we miss our way in a labyrinth, — I have never attempted any thing in this line beyond... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 334 sider
...of innocent looking paste-board, having in the centre a hole large enough for a blueCHAPTEK XIX. " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." DRYDEN. WE left the sun setting, or preparing to set; the willows looking at their pensile tresses... | |
| Charles Whitehead - 1842 - 366 sider
...what ? just listen to this, Jeremiah Woful," and with a theatrical air, he repeated, ' 1 am as free us nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When, wild in woods the noble sarage ran '.' That's John Dryden — one of his Almanzor flights; and I've heard Betterton roll and... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 sider
...and the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man, ) Ere the base laws of servitude begun, i When wild in woods the noble savage ran. } - 'Tis hut because the living death ne'er knew,... | |
| George Canning - 1844 - 646 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." Noble and swelling sentiments! — but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas! — but... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 sider
...anger and disdain, to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws nf servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. CoNQUEST op GEANADA. E Earl of Menteith,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1845 - 326 sider
...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...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Groioa*. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
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