 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - 484 pages
...curoe." IIIORACK, Oar., lib. Iv.-car. xi. I knew я very wise man, that believed that ¡fa man wert- permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make tin- laws of a nation. [AXDKEW FLETCHER. Albany : Joel Munsell. 1819. 8vo. pp. 69. . The members of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 554 pages
...political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the t.Killud*, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." MBS. MANLET (1724), in the reign of Anne, was a dramatist, novelist, and political writer, popular,... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 590 pages
...taken the literature as reflecting the character of the people. It was a Scotchman who first said that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws, of a nation, and in ballad literature Scotland is peculiarly rich. To criticise their origin is as difficult as... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1871 - 548 pages
...his best hold on the memory of modern times. He writes : " I knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." If this should be thought to be exaggeration, it will not be doubted that national songs, in some degree,... | |
 | William Chappell - Ballads, English - 1885 - 864 pages
...concerning ballads : — " I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher Musgraves sentiments, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all...the ballads, he need not care who should make the songs of a nation. ... In this city the dramatic poet no less than the ballad maker has been almost... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1872 - 550 pages
...Anne. Ilig writings were chiefly in the form of political tracts. He is the author of the saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." MRS. MANLEY (1724), in the reign of Anne, wag a dramatist, novelist, and political writer, popular,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - Bible - 1872 - 372 pages
...1653—1716), said, in a letter to the Marquis of Hontrose, " I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Hence, although P.'s precept was primarily directed to the praise and worship of God ; there can be... | |
 | Brookline (Mass.) - Brookline (Mass.) - 1872 - 866 pages
...primarily, the cultivation of the memory. I quite agree with Fletcher in thinking him a wise man who said " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. " There is, in the saying, a great deal of philosophy worth our attention. I would not, however, be... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1872 - 638 pages
...his best hold on the memory of modern times. He writes : "I knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." If this should be thought to be exaggeration, it will not be doubted that national songs, in some degree,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Songs - 1872 - 514 pages
...CRITICAL REVIEW LYRIC POETS. " I knew a very wise man who lielieved that, if a man were permitted 10 make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Andrew fTetclter of Saltoun. So, nearly two centuries ago, wrote a sagacious Scottish Statesman. The... | |
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I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. 
