| James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...IX.) I have, on a former occasion,* quoted the sentiments of ANDREW FLETCHER, of Saltoun, who says, "That most of the ancient legislators, thought they could not well reform the manners of anycity, without the help of a lyric and sometimes of a dramatic poet." See his Political Works, Lond.... | |
| American Antiquarian Society - 1813 - 322 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun, 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 laws of a nation," is familiar to all students of English literature. To whom in this remark, sometimes erroneously ascribed... | |
| 1858 - 862 pages
...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." Such are the circumstances under which this aphorism was uttered ; and they are not uninstructive in... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 298 pages
...(«) ' 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... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...Saltoun, speaks of a wise person whom he knew, ' who be lieved that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. (Polit. Works, 8vo. p. 2C6. Glasg. 1749.) BALLAD, in music, a short air, repeated to two or mon stanzas,... | |
| Literature - 1917 - 920 pages
...British Army by the study of its songs. The man who first said: "If a man were permitted to make ali the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation," would be sore puzzled by our soldiers. No nation has given birth to greater poets than the On Reading... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1184 pages
...have understood the gentle wisdom of Fletcher of Saltoun — "That if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a people." He never gained their respect; bat, by his self-seeking, his self-promotion to power and place,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1888 - 662 pages
...Hawthornden, ii supposed to Ьате known a 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." Much curious information is supplied in the various chapters on carols and wasiail songs, church ales... | |
| Electronic journals - 1856 - 568 pages
...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." See " N. A Q." 1" S. i. 124. 153.] N. Byficld. — I have a small volume, title-page wanting, with... | |
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