literary work

Ballads

work by John II, Duke of Lorraine

Notable quotes

“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, quoting the Earl of Cromarty; Letters to the Marquis of Montrose, in Fletcher's Works (ed. 1749), p. 266.
“I have a passion for ballads. * * * They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,—in the genial Summertime.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book II, Chapter II.
“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.”
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 187.
“Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 220.
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
— Samuel Lover, Paddy Blake's Echo.
“More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.”
— John Selden, Libels. (Libels-pamphlets, libellum, a small book).

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“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, quoting the Earl of Cromarty; Letters to the Marquis of Montrose, in Fletcher's Works (ed. 1749), p. 266.
“I have a passion for ballads. * * * They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,—in the genial Summertime.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book II, Chapter II.
“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.”
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 187.
“Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 220.
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
— Samuel Lover, Paddy Blake's Echo.
“More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.”
— John Selden, Libels. (Libels-pamphlets, libellum, a small book).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.