 | 1877 - 896 Seiten
...every corner of the streets." Hereupon Fletcher of Saltoun said he knew a very wise person 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." We have all heard these words quoted — or misquoted — times... | |
 | William Harrison - 1877 - 168 Seiten
...of the Manx peasantry. Such is the influence of a ballad, that well might the sage of old remark, " if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Some on the Island deny Christian's guilt altogether; but there... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 Seiten
...of literature, in the genial summer-time. — LONGFELLOW. — 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. Ballads. —And tell prose writers, stories are so stale, That penny... | |
 | George Stewart - 1878 - 272 Seiten
...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 the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. He has woven this maxim into his character so strongly, and so thoroughly,... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 Seiten
...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 the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Didactic poetry shows the same purpose ; as in Young's Night Thoughts,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...and others — erroneously ascribed to the Earl of Chatham : ' 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.' The newspaper may now be said to have supplanted the ballad ; yet,... | |
 | 1879 - 480 Seiten
...has struck against his impressible life. Andrew Fletcher said, " 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." If that wise man were alive to-day in this country of schools, his... | |
 | 1879 - 360 Seiten
...Fletcher to the Marquis of Montrose and others, where he says: — "I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he did not care who should make the laws of a nation ! " It was therefore " a very wise man," and not... | |
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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. 
