| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1824 - 498 páginas
...far he is to be trusted." CHAP. II. THE VAGRANT. 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 Conquett of Grenada. WHII<E Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824 - 264 páginas
...proved the plaintiff's goese to have been missing. In the pure state of nature, though, " Ere the base laws of servitude began, " When wild in woods the noble savage ran," this corruption of manners was not known among the feathered race — polygamy and incontinence were... | |
| George Canning - 1828 - 456 páginas
...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." , md Noble and swelling sentiments!—but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas!—but... | |
| 1820 - 398 páginas
...the following, the result of a careful search : " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 996 páginas
...extravagant of his 133] 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... | |
| 1844 - 440 páginas
...noblest lines, in the English language : — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 páginas
...amounting almost to the sublime rant of Almanzor. " He was as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 páginas
...member of no tribe. Like the savage in Dryden, He is as free as nature first made man Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| George Canning - 1835 - 650 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 páginas
...and beautiful theories of the social compact, or of some antecedent antediluvian era,' " Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Yet are we, after all, for the established order of things, because it is order. Possibly a change... | |
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