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" 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. "
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 34
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808
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A Short and Easie Method with the Deists: Wherein the Certainty of the ...

Charles Leslie - Apologetics - 1723 - 186 pages
...Daniel de Foe, who certainly knew his own Scheme. To be as- free as Nature flrfl made Man, E'er the bate Laws of Servitude began. When wild in Woods the noble Savage ran. This is their wild Notion of an indefendent State of Nature. But the Vanity and Falfehood of this brutal...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...many sentiments either or bulky, and many images either just or splendid :, I am as free as Mature first made man^. • Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild ia woods the noble savapje ran. —Tis 1-. ' . Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew, They fear...
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would fit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first marie man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble tavage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained freedom ever existed,...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...and the 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 ia woods the noble savage ran. — Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...; that \*,ftr those beings ttaa are cattle, and Аи use that is man. The is used in both numbers. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran, Drjdm. Many words are used without articks; as, 1. Proper names, as John, Alexander, Lon~ ginui, Aristarcbus,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid: J am as free as Nature first made man, -» Ere the base...began, /• When wild in woods the noble savage ran. ^ — 'Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it as a thing that's new : Let...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...produced many sentiments either great or bulky, and many images either just or splendid : 1 am as free RS Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — 'Tis but because thu living death ne'er knew, They fear to pro\e it as a thing that's new : Let...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...and the 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...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — 'Tis but because the Living death ne'er knew, They fear to prove it as a thing that's new : Let...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 8

Europe - 1817 - 398 pages
...The poet, indeed, has made a ranting hero exclaim, in a tone which would lit some modern agitators, I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. But it seems doubtful whether such a state of absolute and unrestrained freedom ever existed, except...
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