 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...Jeremiah Woful,' and with a theatrical air he repeated, ' " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American literature - 1842 - 274 pages
...we to our herds feeding beside the still waters. CHAPTER XIX. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. DRTDZN. WHEN we miss our way in a labyrinth, — I have never attempted any thing in this line beyond... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 334 pages
...having in the centre a hole large enough for a blueCHAPTEK XIX. " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 698 pages
...endeavour to ascertain how far he is to be trusted." THE VAGRANT. I am as free as Natere first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began. When wild in woods the noble savage ran. THE CONQUEST op GRENADA. Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1842 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1845 - 326 pages
...worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. 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 Groioa*. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 532 pages
...he is to be trusted." CHAPTER XVI. THR VAGRANT. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the hase laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Grenada. WHILE Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...great or bulky, and many images cither just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man, J Ere the base laws of servitude began, \ When wild...because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to pr"ve it as a thing that's new : Let me th' ex* -.•'. mem before you trv, I'll show you !.rst how... | |
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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. 
