 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - English literature - 1822 - 294 pages
...subjects be, But know that I alone am king of me ; I am as free as Nature first made man, E'er the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. This he vomited out with the utmost convulsions of rant and fury. — " As I take it," said Sir Richard,... | |
 | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - English literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...subjects be, But know that I alone am king of me ; I am as free as Nature first made man, E'er the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. This he vomited out with the utmost convulsions of rant and fury. — " As I take it," said Sir Richard,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pages
...commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXL I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Granada. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 586 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1823 - 328 pages
...he is to be trusted." " CHAPTER VI. 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 Conquest of Grenada. WHILE Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies necessary to assure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...bulky, and many images either just or splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man, 1 Kiv the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. j — -'Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew. They fear to prove it as a thing that 's new :... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - American literature - 1824 - 264 pages
...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 not... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1824 - 498 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
