|
|
 |
Listings |
 |
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
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. - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ,
|
Charles Stuart Calverley
The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.
|
John Dryden
Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
|
John Selden
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
|
Samuel Lover
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
|
Thomas Haynes Bayly
I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady A recitative from Tancredi, And something from Palpiti! Sing forte when first you begin it, Piano the very next minute, They'll cry What expression there's in it! Don't sing English ballads to me!
|
William Shakespeare
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
|
William Shakespeare
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
Browse Categories |
|
|
|
|
