 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. —Letter to  The Writer - 86. lappuse1894Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1875 - 472 lapas
...rhymes are poor indeed ; but they fairly belong to that class of which Fletcher of Saltoun wrote : "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Here, too, we may say a word of a contemporary tribe of English democratic poets, many of them springing... | |
 | Thomas Turner Wilkinson - 1875 - 596 lapas
...LITERARY CLUB THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR COLLEAGUE TT WILKINSON. INTRODUCTION. " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws oj a nation."—ANDREW FLETCHER of Saltoun. "THE rude poetry of Song and Ballad," says Mr. Harland... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1876 - 572 lapas
...of Saltoun wrote, " 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," he referred to the popular songs of the people, but, in point of fact, a nation makes its own ballads,... | |
 | 1877 - 362 lapas
...hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature, in the genial summertime.—LONGFELL0W. — I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, Letter to Montrose, Ba]Iads.—'And tell prose writers, stories are so stale,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 lapas
...hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature, in th( genial summertime.—LONGFELLOW. — I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Ballads.—And tell prose writers, stories are so stale, That penny BALLADS have a better sale. BRETON,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1878 - 402 lapas
...r.7. Dr.J.Talbot, A Ser. v.8. Abp.Siclalsan , A Scr. Н.Э. Dr.C.Horgan, A Ser. " I knew а тегу wise man that believed that if a man were permitted...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of nation."—Andrew Fletcher. e T.Adams. "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first... | |
 | George Stewart - 1878 - 272 lapas
...Andrew Fletcher, who, in a letter to the Marquis of Montrose, remarked, that he knew a very wise man who believed that if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. He has woven this maxim into his character so strongly, and so thoroughly, that it has become a part... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 580 lapas
...truth that gives point to the celebrated saying of Fletcher of Saltoun : " I knew a very wise man who believed that, if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Didactic poetry shows the same purpose; as in Young's Night Thoughts, Thomson's Seasons, Cowper's Task,... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 lapas
...purpose of the apostle. the celebrated saying of Fletcher of Saltoun : " I knew a very wise man who believed that, if a man were permitted to make all...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Didactic poetry shows the same purpose; as in Young's Night Thoughts, Thomson's Seasons, Cowper's Task,... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1878 - 704 lapas
...giving to the female sex is enormous. ' Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun once said " he knew a wise friend who believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads of a nation he need not care who should make the laws." ' 1 It might be said of the present age that... | |
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