51) §14. The Poetical Vocabulary. XIX. Changes in the Language to the Days of
Chaucer. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The
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...a man. The word burde, a lady, which is familiar to modern readers from its survival in late ballad poetry, seems to be the feminine of the Old English adjective...
52) §6. "Lays of Ancient Rome". II. Historians, Biographers and Political
Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of
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...be loved by the young, and by all for whom graphic force and an easy command of ballad metres constitute poetry. In more experienced readers, it fails, as Mignet...
53) §3. "Idea". X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North
to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...shepherd boy, in which archaic terms are introduced to the best and quaintest effect. The new eclogue, the ninth, contains three songs, all among Drayton s best....
54) §7. The Beginnings of a Business. XVIII. The Book-Trade, 1557–1625. Vol. 4.
Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge
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...for himself. If he could procure the copy of some book, or pamphlet, or, may be, even a ballad, which he could enter in the register as his property, and then get...
55) §18. Mrs. Cockburn; Jane and Sir Gilbert Elliot. XIV. Scottish Popular
Poetry before Burns. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The
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...Elliot, of Minto, was used by Herd for a version made up from various copies of the old ballad collated; but an authentic copy was obtained by Scott for The Border...
56) §7. Daniel s "Civil Wars". VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4.
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...and the ballad —or, rather, the discussion upon honour—called Ulisses and the Syren. If the sonnets, beautiful as they are, savour a little of an exercise in poetry,...
57) §5. The Spirit of Imperialism. V. Seafaring and Travel. Vol. 4. Prose and
Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of
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...west. Both Hakluyt and Purchas wrote in the same spirit. So, also, the Tudor poets and balladists gave expression to the imperialism born of the increasing influence...
58) §10. His Satires and Odes. X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry:
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...Bermudas ride. In the former, we have all the bravery of the golden days of the adventurers. Britans, you stay too long, Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a merry...
59) §1. Definition of the Subject. XVII. Ballads. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle
Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An
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...or any marks of individual authorship such as sentiment and reflection, meant, in the first instance, for singing, and connected, as its name implies, with the communal...
60) §5. Original Scots Songs in "The Tea-Table Miscellany:" Lady Grizel
Baillie, lady Wardlaw and William Hamilton of Gilbertfield. XIV. Scottish
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...of implication in the Rye house plot. Lady Wardlaw is now known to be the author of the ballads Hardyknute and Gilderoy. Willie was a Wanton Wag—suggested by the...
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