...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 in wood's the noble savage ran. — Tis but because the living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it,...

...contest for empire between Britain and America was no longer present to his fancy. CHAPTER VI. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, And wild in woods the noble savage ran. DBYDEN. WHEN the British commenced their retreat, the American...

...politically, the ideal of individual independence dreamed of by the poet, and be in their national capacity, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the lordly savage ran. As free as nature first made man, The characteristic outlines of this people, 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 laws of...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...

...be said, in the language which Dryden puts into the mouth >f one of the most extravagant of his 133] heroes, that, " They would be free as nature first...began, *' When wild in woods the noble savage ran." Noble and swelling sentiments ! but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas ! but which...

...which the selfconceit of the worthy commander 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 Granadn. THE Earl of Menteith, as he had undertaken, so he proceeded to investigate more...

...— Can she say, with Drydt.n, in some of the noblest lines, in the English language : — " I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of...servitude began, When wild, in woods, the noble savage ran ? True ! no drudgery is equal to that of Vanity and Vice. The vain, are the slavels of Folly — the...

...Constitution, pant for other schemes of liberty than those which that Constitution sanctions — other than are compatible with a just equality of civil...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...

...independence and a hatred of control amounting almost to the sublime rant of Almanzor. " He was as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of...began, "When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry...

...there is the habitation of an Indian who is member of no tribe. Like the savage in Dryden, He is as free as nature first made man Ere the base laws of...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Ouravagare belonged to a distant tribe, which had been dispersed and destroyed by war. He took refuge...