 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 páginas
...Mittelalter lustig macht, hat er auch 'kein Verständnis für die Ballade. Spöttisch meint er,168) Cantilenus turned all his thoughts upon old ballads,...them as the genuine records of the national taste. Er bedauert es, daß sich Addison169) lächerlich gemacht habe by a serious display of the beauties... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1919 - 312 páginas
...Thomas, the antiquary, may be kept in mind. Cantilenus, as Johnson unsympathetically reminds us, still " turned all his thoughts upon old ballads, for he considered...them as the genuine records of the national taste." l The lull was broken by Thomas Percy, when, after preliminary meddlings with the verse of mandarins... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 páginas
...which, when he despaired of obtaining it, was sent him wrapped round a parcel of tobacco. Cantilenas turned all his thoughts upon old ballads, for he considered...genuine records of the national taste. He offered to shew me a copy of " The Children in the Wood," which he firmly believed to be of the first edition,... | |
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Wood," which he firmly believed to be of the first edition, and, by the help of which, the text might be freed from several corruptions, if this age of barbarity had any claim to such favours from him. 
