| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1845 - 326 pages
...rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXII. 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 Groioa*. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 532 pages
...he is to be trusted." CHAPTER XVI. THR VAGRANT. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the hase 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...But whence hast thou the right to give me death 1 I im ы free as Nature first made man, ER the base od nurse ! Sweet Montague, be true. Stay but a little, I will com Conquut ¡if Granada, Part 1. {Lave and Beauty.'] A change so swift what heart did ever feel ! Itnuhd... | |
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 450 pages
...The line as usually quoted is from Dr/den : — I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 1 The Conquest of Granada,' pt. 1, Act I., sc. i. CA COOK. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. The correct... | |
| Electronic journals - 1920 - 968 pages
...line as usually quoted is from Dryden : — • I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 4 The Conquest of Granada,' pt. 1, Act I., sc. i. CA COOK. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. The correct... | |
| English essays - 1851 - 950 pages
...must Hart have delivered the well-known lines, 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 attraction, however, of the play rested mainly upon Nelly, who spoke the prologue " in a broad-brimmed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1851 - 420 pages
...he is to bo trusted." CHAPTER XVI. 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... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...subjects be, But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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 - Actors - 1852 - 250 pages
...must Hart have delivered the wellknown lines, — I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
| England - 1853 - 420 pages
...speech with the oft-quoted lines of Pope — " 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 coquette finds her occupation gone, and she is obliged to speak and act like a reasonable creature... | |
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