 | England - 1853 - 420 pages
...perhaps winds up a speech with the oft-quoted lines of Pope — " 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 coquette finds her occupation gone, and she is obliged to speak and act like a reasonable creature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...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 as a thing that's new : Let me th' experiment before you try ; I'll show you first how easy 'tis to die." " There... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Gift books - 1854 - 322 pages
...broom was near, ^ To hide a bonnet or a spear. -K DEATH FEARED BECAUSE UNKNOWN. ." ',; BY DRYDEN. .>. , 'Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, , They fear to prove it as a thing that's new : Let me the experiment before you try, , I'll show you first how easy 'tis to die. COURAGE... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 pages
...he is to be trusted." 20* VOL. i. CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT. I am aa free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Granada. While Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure... | |
 | Adolph Erman - Geology - 1855 - 686 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...be struck out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " 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's natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...none durst walk but he. Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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.... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...be struck out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " 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's natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
