 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.  The Works of Lord Byron - Side 604af George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 sider
...State. Of Tombs. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. 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. Letter to the Marquis ofMontrose, the Earl cf Rothes, etc. ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727. I"... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 sider
...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1870 - 1004 sider
...said to the earl of Cromarty, "I knew a very wise man of Sir Christopher Musjfravo's sentiment, id- believed, if a man were permitted to make all the...ballads, he need not care who should make the laws." (1703.) Ballet is the recital of some adventure or intrigue by gesture and dancing. Baltazari'ni, director... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1891 - 1050 sider
...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 express the emotions... | |
 | John D. Minor, Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati) - 1870 - 448 sider
...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 nation, you can... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - 484 sider
...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 of... | |
 | William Chappell - 1885 - 864 sider
...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... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1871 - 548 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1871 - 590 sider
...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 origin is as... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1872 - 550 sider
...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,... | |
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