...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 ! —...

...endeavour to ascertain how far he is to be trusted." VOL. XXXI. CHAPTER XVI. THE VAGKANT. I am ftS'free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. TEE COXQOEST or GRKUDA. WHILE Quentin held the brief communication with the ladies, necessary to assure...

...Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. The Tempest. Prologue. 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. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1. Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er...

...thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.' (d) ' I am as free as nature first made man Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.' («) ' Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted...

...of splendid dubious imagery such as may be struck out in the heat of heroic declamation. Thus— ' I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.' Dryden's natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not BO much in the imaginative as in...

...Shakspere's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. The Tempest. Prologue. 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 Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. i. Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er...

...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 rim." Noble and swelling sentiments ! — but such as cannot be reduced it tit practice. Grand ideas!...

...SAVAGE. No man has more contempt than I of breath, But whence hast thou the right to give me death? I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. VENI CREATOR. Creator Spirit, by whose aid The World's foundations first were laid, Come, visit every...

...of 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...servitude began. When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry...

...Dryden puts into the mouth of one of the most extravagant of his heroes, that, • " They wonld 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 1 — but such as cannot be reduced into practice. Grand ideas ! —...