 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 Seiten
...of Granada by the Spaniards, London 1672 (first performed 1670). Thus, the hero Almanzor proclaims: "I am as free as Nature first made man / 'Ere the...Servitude began / When wild in woods the noble Savage ran" (I, i, 207-9). The Works of John Dryden, vol. 11, ed. H. T Swedenbergjr. et al. (Berkeley: University... | |
 | Antony James William Taylor - 2006 - 234 Seiten
...John Dryden's 1670 poem comes to mind in which he was the first to coin the term the 'noble savage': 'I am as free as Nature first made man. Ere the base...servitude began. When wild in woods the noble savage ran". His romanticism of the noble savage being in a 'state of nature' contrasted with Thomas Hobbes'(165... | |
 | Richard Lansdown - 2006 - 450 Seiten
...never used it. It comes from the English poet John Dryden's play The Conquest of Granada (1672) — I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in the woods the noble savage ran. — though Dryden's emphasis on nature and the "base laws of servitude"... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2005 - 145 Seiten
...time I ever think I got dealt a lousy hand, I think o' the Indians," lamented James. Bartlett added, "I am as free as Nature first made man, ere the base laws of servitude began, when wild in the woods the noble savage ran." "I wonder," mused the larger man, "If John Dryden really knew who... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - 2005 - 380 Seiten
...Indian Queen (1664) impara a vivere nello stato di natura e Almanzor di The Conquest ofGranada esclama: "I am as free as Nature first made man/ 'Ere the base Laws of Ma nella "Prefazione", scritta nel 1670, Dryden mostra un atteggiamento diverso nei confronti di Davenant.... | |
 | Timothy D. Taylor - 2007 - 332 Seiten
...that the term was first used by Dryden in The Conquest of Grenada of 1670, in which a character says: "I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran" (Outram, Enlightenment, 66) Some commentators, such as Bence Szabolcsi, "Exoticisms in Mozart," Music... | |
 | Nancy C. Cox, Karin Dannehl - 2007 - 264 Seiten
...176-7. 52 See, for example, the first three lines of John Dryden's poem 'The Conquest of Granada': 'I am as free as nature first made man, / Ere the...began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.' 53 William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly... | |
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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. 
