 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 Seiten
...bosom for bis profound wisdom and exalted independence, that " he 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 lav, s, of a nation." This remark is undoubtedly expressive of the author's conviction, that such compositions... | |
 | 1858 - 862 Seiten
...WILSON. INDUSTRIAL MDSEOH, EDINBUBOH, September 1858. THE BALLAD POETRY OF SCOTLAND AND OF IRELAND.* " IF a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." This is a saying which has often been cited, not always quite so accurately, perhaps, as on the present... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 Seiten
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. Fletcher of Saltoun said, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The character of a people is long preserved in their national songs. " God... | |
 | 1824 - 298 Seiten
...502. («) ' I knew (says Mr. Fletcher) a very wise man who believed, that if a man were permitted lo make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.' (4) PS to Spectator, in folio. — There are in the play of the Self-Tormentor, of Terence, several... | |
 | 1832 - 308 Seiten
...According to what you may observe on * I knew,' says Mr. Fletcher, ' a very wise man who believed, that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care care who should make the laws of a nation.' our stage," you see them often moved so directly against... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 Seiten
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. Fletcher of Saltown said, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The character of a people is preserved in their national songs. " God save... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 Seiten
...bard, of the Southeys for their hearts, and the Moores for their verse. Fletcher of Saltoun said, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of a nation." The character of a people is preserved in their national songs. " God save... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 224 Seiten
...acute Fletcher of Saltoun was so sensible of their importance, as to express a deliberate opinion, that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who made the laws of a nation. They who deem this an exaggerated notion, will do well to recollect the... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 Seiten
...acute Fletcher of Saltoun was so sensible of their importance, as to express a deliberate opinion, that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who made the laws of a nation. They who deem this an exaggerated notion, will do well to recollect the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 570 Seiten
...the famous phrase of the wise man, whom he does not name, ( and which has grown into a proverb : ) " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation," * he indicated the necessity for that appreciation of, and sympathy with, the domestic life of a people... | |
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I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — '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. 
