 | Monthly literary register - 1843 - 578 lapas
...But neither reason nor imagination have influence now, nor the reflection of Sheridan, " let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." A marriage to immortal verse is the worst kind of matrimony, in these unimaginative times; but even... | |
 | 626 lapas
...founded on a knowledge of man's nature, which was uttered long ago by a British statesman : "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." How many local and national songs there are learned in infancy, and made sacred by the earliest associations... | |
 | Board of National Popular Education - 1848 - 544 lapas
...hardly find it necessary to contend for any other. If there was wisdom in the saying '-Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," much more wisely might the women of a nation say- " Let us educate the children of tlie nation,... | |
 | Reuben Weiser - 1848 - 842 lapas
...as anything else, that moved the heart of all Germany. Sir Philip Sydney, once said: " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.." Luther made the songs or hymns of Germany, and he also made her tunes. He wrote some of the best hymns... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 600 lapas
...XII.. 211, 461. Encyclopaedia i:ritannica, Art. Theatre. Dunlap's History of the American Theatre. " Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who writes their laws." The poet of Avon, whose knowledge of human nature probably has never been excelled... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 lapas
...poet, if it be the poet's province to sing songs of defiance and war Î He who said, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," was right. Certainly the songs ol Elliott, under God, unmade the corn-laws of England. One purpose... | |
 | 1855 - 850 lapas
...Abel was a " keeper of sheep," his name was Abel Shepherd. (gnttits. TV,,;. !..(. me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," did not come from Washington Irving, bnt from Dean Stcift. Yonrs, etc., 8. LY TARIFF. "Can you,... | |
 | 1868 - 610 lapas
...the ascendancy. People say that wo are to be left out here in the cold. It was Fletcher, of Saltoun, who said, " Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." If we can make the ideas of a nation, who cares where the millions may dwell. Wherever they are, they... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1868 - 1384 lapas
...has gained the ascendancy. People say that we are to be left out here in the cold. It was Fletcher who said, "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." If we can make the ideas of a nation, who cares where the millions may dwell. Wherever they are, they... | |
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Give me the making of the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws. 
