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 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 442 sider
...commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. I am as free as nature first made man, Kre the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savagc ran. CONQUEST OF GRANADA. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 660 sider
...to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. 1 am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods die noble .savage ran. Conquest of Grenaaa. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded... | |
 | 1853 - 428 sider
...stories about his school-boy days, and perhaps winds up a speech with the oft-quoted lines of Pope — " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base luws of servitude began, , When wild in woods the noble savage ran." The coquette finds her occupation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 sider
...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 began, When wild in wooda the noble savage ran." " 'Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it... | |
 | Adolph Erman - 1855 - 686 sider
...sclavische Ehrfurcht den Personen" ausschliefst, ist ein allgemeiner Zug Zustände und primitiven Zeiten: „Ere the base laws of servitude began, „When wild in woods the noble savage ran." f.' ., . sein. Nicht weniger bemerkenswert ist die Achtung, welche die Bauern ihren Gutsherren beweisen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 400 sider
...commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. I am as free as nature first made man, Kre the base laws of servitude began. When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of (Irai.ndn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 sider
...of splendid dubious imagery such as may be struck out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Dryden's natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 sider
...could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. There is a pleasure In being mad which none but madmen know. Don Sebastian.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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 which... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 sider
...PASSAGES IN VERSE. THE good die first ; And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust Burn to the socket. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover, or some captive maid : They... | |
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