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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 436
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...another book, Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn us well? This endeavour after the grand and (he new, produced many sentiments either great or bulky,...Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in wood's the noble savage ran. — Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it,...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...images either just or splendid : I am as free ae Nature first made man, Ere the hase laws of servitnde began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. —...the living death ne'er knew. They fear to prove it ae a thing that's new : Let me th' experiment before you try, I'll shew you first how easy 'tie to...
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The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, Volume 2

American periodicals - 1826 - 506 pages
...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...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...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...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Memoir ..., Volume 4

George Canning - Great Britain - 1828 - 456 pages
...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...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 15

Walter Scott - 1885 - 400 pages
...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...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 7

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1823 - 996 pages
...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...
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The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic, and Lady's ..., Volume 12; Volume 25

English literature - 1844 - 440 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 17

Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...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...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 26

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...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...
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