 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 660 페이지
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 페이지
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 642 페이지
...endeavour to ascertain how far 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 페이지
...Almahide. With what manliness and grace of elocution must Hart have delivered the well-known lines, — I am as free as nature first made man, 'Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The attraction, however, of the play rested mainly upon Nelly, who spoke the prologue in "a broadbrimmed... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 612 페이지
...Almangor, was typical of the age then commencing. The bold warrior tells us he would be free — " free as Nature first made Man, Ere the base laws of...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." He emancipated himself from convention ; he set himself above kings ; he resolved all questions by... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 페이지
...free. CHURCHILL. — Independence. Bat I was free born. ST. PAUL.— The Acts, Chap. XXII. Verse 28. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savnge ran. DRYDEN. — Conquest of Granada, Act I. Scene I. By my troth, this is free and easy indeed.... | |
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Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 
