 | David Masson - Literature - 1874 - 404 pages
...out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of 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... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Sermons, English - 1874 - 406 pages
...alone, heedless of his neighbor, who can? Crusoe, Selkirk, Mungo Park is but half a man. " Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran? " Indeed, is the savage, living on chance game or berries in the woods, free as the citizen ? Dogma... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...none durst walk but he. The Tempest. Prologue. 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 Granada. Part i. Act \. Sc. I. Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Wit and humor - 1875 - 250 pages
...which his unfragrant nobility is embalmed : — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." I have forgotten, if I ever knew, in whose mouth this heroic triplet is placed; nor does it matter—enough... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...But whence hast thou the right to give me death ? I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base ed : There is a living God who made all things. And immediately t Conquest of Granada, Pari t. Love and Beauty. A change so swift what heart did ever feel ! It rushed... | |
 | James Monaco - Motion picture producers and directors - 1976 - 390 pages
...hankering" in 1667, in The Conquest of Granada: 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 attitude long pre-dates Dryden, but it was his phrase "noble savage" which symbolized throughout... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - Education - 1986 - 388 pages
...Granada, Part I, 1672, Ii209; Almanzor states that he is "as free as Nature first made man / 'Ere the base Laws of Servitude began / When wild in woods the noble Savage ran." See The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 11. Ed. John Loftis and David Stuart Rodes. Berkeley: University... | |
 | Anthony Gerard Barthelemy - Drama - 1999 - 236 pages
...natural law: 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. (Part I, I, i, 206-209) Almanzor's adherence to natural law, however, does make some of his acts questionable... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...proclaims himself, in Conquest of Granada, to be .. .as free as Nature first made man. Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The idea of noble savagery goes back much further than the seventeenth century, however. Primitivism—for... | |
 | Gaile McGregor - Social Science - 1988 - 372 pages
...proclaims himself, in Conquest of Granada, to be . . .as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The idea of noble savagery goes back much further than the seventeenth century, however. Primitivism... | |
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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. 
