 | Charles Leslie - 1723 - 186 pages
...Daniel de Foe, who certainly knew his own Scheme. To be as"free as Nature fir ft made Man, E'er the baCe Laws of Servitude began, When wild in Woods the noble Savage ran. But the Vanity and Falfehocd of this brutal Scheme is detected, as with a Sun-beam, from the Holy Scriptures,... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 492 pages
...this negledled territory to adopt the words of a great poet, " As free as nature first made man, E'er the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." DRYDEN. The origin of these bloody commotions may be traced to a memorial presented to the lords of... | |
 | 1819 - 550 pages
...ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would fit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first marie man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble tavage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained freedom ever existed,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 ia woods the noble savage ran. — Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...that \*,ftr those beings ttaa are cattle, and Аи use that is man. The is used in both numbers. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws...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,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 494 pages
...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...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 : l«t... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...themselves. One of Drydeu's, heroes exclaims in triumph, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the vile laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Will cold phlegmatic reasoning induce a being thus rude and naturally proud pf his rudeness, tp relinquish... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 468 pages
...to give me death? Obeyed as sovereign 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 laws...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Boab. Since, then. no power above your own you know, Mankind should use you like a common foe ; You... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pages
...to give me death? Obeyed as sovereign 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 laws...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Boab. Since, then, no power above your own you knowf, Mankind should use you like a common foe ; •... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...to give me death? Obeyed as sovereign 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 laws...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Boab. Since, then. no power above your own you know, Mankind should use you like a common foe ; You... | |
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 
