 | Samuel Johnson - 1805
...; that \*,ftr those beings ttaa are cattle, and ¬¡¬Ú use that is man. The is used in both numbers. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran, Drjdm. Many words are used without articks; as, 1. Proper names, as John, Alexander, Lon~ ginui, Aristarcbus,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid: J am as free as Nature first made man, -» Ere the base...began, /• When wild in woods 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... | |
 | 1810
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : 1 am as free RS Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — 'Tis but because thu living death ne'er knew, They fear to pro\e it as a thing that's new : Let... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816
...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...servitude began, When wild in woods 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... | |
 | 1817
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would lit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained freedom ever existed, except... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1817
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would fit some modera agitators, I am as free as nature first made man. Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in wood» the noble savage ran, But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1817
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in ft tone which would fit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woodi the noble savage ram But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820
...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...servitude began, When wild in woods 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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820
...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...servitude 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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