 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.  Notes and Queries - Strana 1481879Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1891 - Počet stránok 1050
...people without power to meet any great crisis or achieve any great deed. Fletcher of Saltoun's saying, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation," expresses a profound truth, because the songs which create as well as... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Brookline (Mass.) - 1872 - Počet stránok 866
...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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