 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 - Page 1481879Full view - About this book
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1871 - 548 pages
...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 - Ballads, English - 1885 - 864 pages
...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 - American literature - 1872 - 550 pages
...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 - United States - 1872 - 638 pages
...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 - Bible - 1872 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Brookline (Mass.) - Brookline (Mass.) - 1872 - 866 pages
...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. I would not, however, be... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Songs - 1872 - 514 pages
...CRITICAL REVIEW LYRIC POETS. " I knew a very wise man who lielieved that, if a man were permitted 10 make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Andrew fTetclter of Saltoun. So, nearly two centuries ago, wrote a sagacious Scottish Statesman. The... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1873 - 488 pages
...beloved. It was an eminent and popular Scotsman who first uttered the judgment, so often repeated, " If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." In literature of this kind Scotland is peculiarly affluent. The ballad poetry of Scotland may now be... | |
 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - Labor - 1873 - 424 pages
...tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee." COWPEE. " T 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." So wrote that bold and intelligent seventeenth-century politician, Andrew Fletcher of Saltown, in a... | |
 | Charles Hindley - Ballads, English - 1873 - 562 pages
...STRAND, wc, AND 185, FLEET STREET, EC 1873. y >•• £• " 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." Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716). ' WSRgHE Collection of Ancient Songs and Ballads, written on... | |
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