| 1851 - 950 páginas
...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 broad-brimmed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1851 - 420 páginas
...with him farther, and endeavour to ascertain how far he is to bo trusted." CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGRANT. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 páginas
...give me death ? -. Obey'd as sov'reign by thy subjects be, But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Abdalla. This, sir, is he who for the elder fought, And to the juster cause the conquest brought: Till... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1852 - 250 páginas
...Almahide. With what manliness and grace of elocution must Hart have delivered the wellknown lines, — I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. upon Nelly, who spoke the prologue " in a broadbrimmed hat and waist-belt," and apologised in the following... | |
| John McDonald - 1852 - 314 páginas
...prejudices were strong, their passions warm, and they were frequently hurried into excesses. " They were as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws...of servitude began — When wild in woods the noble ravage ran." Their courage in surmounting danger, their fortitude in enduring hardships and privations,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 442 páginas
...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 savagc ran. CONQUEST OF GRANADA. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate... | |
| 1853 - 422 páginas
...about his school-boy days, and perhaps winds up a speech with the oft-quoted lines of Pope — " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 660 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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