...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid: I am as free as Nature first made.man'. lire the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran.' — "J'is but beca'use the living death ne'er knew, They tear to prove It as a thing that's new: Let...

...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...

...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....