 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...meaning; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense, 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...or splendid: I am as free as Nature first made man, 1 Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. I — There with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...meaning ; but may we not* say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...made man, ^ Ere the base laws of servitude began, > wild in woods the noble savage ran. ) — 'Tis but because the living death ne'er knew. They fear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...meaning ; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...bulky, and many images either just or splendid: I am at free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, V When wild in woods the noble... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...in poetry, concealed under heaps of rubbish. Take the following, the result of a careful search : " I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...meaning ; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, "Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...bulky, and many images either just or splendid : i I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pages
...disdain, to which the self-conceit of the worthy commander rendered him totally insensible. CHAPTER XXL I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...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
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...meaning; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...splendid : I am as free as Nature first made man, J Ere the base laws of servitude began, > When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 3 — 'Tis but because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...meaning; but may we not say, in imitation of Cowley on another book, 'Tis so like sense 'twill serve the turn as well ? This endeavour after the grand...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1823 - 328 pages
...with him further, and endeavour to ascertain now far he is to be trusted." " CHAPTER VI. THE VAGRANT. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...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... | |
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