 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 стор.
...thing more than that the subject, and the words/ shoiildfresafficfently accommodated tff'tfee music. The ballad is a species" of poetry, I believe, peculiar to 'this c66ntry, equally adapted to the drollest^ and the'most tragical subjects. Simplicity S»ad eaise are... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 стор.
...any thing more than that the subject, and the words should be sufficiently accommodated to the music, The ballad is a species of poetry, I believe peculiar...Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristics. Our 107 thers excelled in it ; but we moderns, have lost thft art. It is observed, that we have few good... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 стор.
...than that the subject, and the words, should be sufficiently accommodated to the music. The hallad is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar to this...characteristics. Our forefathers excelled in it; but we modems have lost the art. It is observed, that we have few good English odes. But to make amends, we... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 324 стор.
...thing more than that the subject and the words Z2 should be sufficiently accommodated to the music. The ballad is a species of poetry I believe peculiar...characteristics. Our forefathers excelled in it ; but we modems have lost the art. It is observed, that we have few good English odes. But to make amends, we... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 стор.
...any other, had not his attention been called from it by graver subjects. ' The ballad,' he remarks, ' is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar to this...excelled in it, but we moderns have lost the art. So much for ballads and ballad-writers ; a worthy subject, you will say, for a man whose head might... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 стор.
...any thing more than that the subject and the words should be sufficiently accommodated to the music. The ballad is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar...proper characteristics. Our forefathers excelled in ft ; but we moderns have lost the art. It is observed, that we have few good English odes. But, to... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 стор.
...tinfolk Letters, voL i . p. Miiforfs L(ft a/Parnell, p. 54. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING. p. 162. "The ballad is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar...equally adapted to the drollest and the most tragical sut|i«t! Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristies. Our forefatherexcelled in it i but we... | |
 | 1835 - 418 стор.
...Letters, vol. I. p. 161. Mitford'a Life of Parnell, p. 54. 'TWAS WHEN THE SEAS WERE ROARING, p. 163. "The ballad is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar to this conn try, equally adapted to the drollest and the most tragical subjects. Simplicity and ease are its... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 стор.
...any thing more than that the subject and the words should be sufficiently accommodated to the music. The ballad is a species of poetry I believe peculiar...tragical subjects. Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristies. Our forefathers excelled in it; but we moderns have tost the art. It is observed,... | |
 | Frank Sidgwick - 1903 - 276 стор.
...of the word began to come into general use. In 1783, in one of his letters, the poet Cowper says : ' The ballad is a species of poetry, I believe, peculiar to this country. . . . Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristics.' Here we have one of the earliest attempts... | |
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The ballad is a species of poetry I believe peculiar to this country, equally adapted to the drollest and the most tragical subjects. Simplicity and ease are its proper characteristics. 
