...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,...

...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...

...probationary 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,...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...

...Brorvn, Jones and Robinson," etc., etc., VOL I. LONDON: I j H' '.! " I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." Andrew Fletcher of Saltmm (1653-1716). Collection of Ancient Songs and Ballads, written on various...

...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...

...resort will be had to criminal." Fletcher, of Saltoun, in his "Conversations on Government," said, "If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make all the laws of the nation." These words contain a very profound truth, which, though disputed by superficial...

...Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, eh. 1 Cf. Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3. ISAAC...

...of their Popularity 178 INDEX 199 GLOSSARY 203 INTRODUCTION. " I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation." — FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, in a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, etc. IT is desirable that the reader...

...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,...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 understood...

...Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads,...need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 1 Compare Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3....