 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - Počet stránok 1004
...said to the earl of Cromarty, "I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musjfravo's sentiment, id- believed, if a man were permitted to make all the...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws." (1703.) Ballet is the recital of some adventure or intrigue by gesture and dancing. Baltazari'ni, director... | |
 | John D. Minor, Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati) - 1870 - Počet stránok 448
...character. We have all heard of the wise man, quoted by Fletcher, of Saltoun, to the effect " that if he was permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Much more true is it that if you be informed what is the religion of a nation, you can with certainty... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - Počet stránok 484
...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 - 1870 - Počet stránok 554
...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,... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 590
...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 - 1871 - Počet stránok 548
...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 - 1885 - Počet stránok 864
...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 - 1872 - Počet stránok 550
...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,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1872 - Počet stránok 638
...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,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - Počet stránok 372
...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... | |
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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. 
