The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . alone is genuine, xind yet have you the affecta-tion or assurance to censure Ramsay,^who not only v/as a muchbetter poet, out, tnough a poor barber, had infinitely moretaste and judgment in Scottish poetry than yourself, forexercising a much slighter degree of the same liberty. 3 In 1787 was commenced the Scots Musical Museumby James Johnson. Johnson was a music-seller ana engraverin Edinburgh, and the v/ork was really projected by Y/illiaraTytler, Dr. Blacklock, and Samuel Clark. The first volumewas partly printed when Bums became acquainted
The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . alone is genuine, xind yet have you the affecta-tion or assurance to censure Ramsay,^who not only v/as a muchbetter poet, out, tnough a poor barber, had infinitely moretaste and judgment in Scottish poetry than yourself, forexercising a much slighter degree of the same liberty. 3 In 1787 was commenced the Scots Musical Museumby James Johnson. Johnson was a music-seller ana engraverin Edinburgh, and the v/ork was really projected by Y/illiaraTytler, Dr. Blacklock, and Samuel Clark. The first volumewas partly printed when Bums became acquainted with theObject of the work. He then entered ^^into the scheme withenthusiasm, and besides begging, and borrowing old songs,wrote many himself. --0000— 1. Ihid. p. 44. 2. Allan Ramsays The Evej*green, The Tea-table Miscellany. 3. G-entlemans Magazine - llovember, 1784, vol. 54, p. 812-314. 4. James Johnson: The Scots Musical Museum in six of Six Hundred Scots Songs, with proper Bassesfor the Piano-Forte. Edinburgh, The oentury was rounded out by the puolicationof oir ;7alter ooott8 TTinstrolsy of the ocottisli Border,SdinDurgh, 1802. The poijularity was almost as immediate asthat of its great precursor, Percys Heliciues. Scottfirst met with the Reliques shortly after he had finishedhis hic^h school work in Edinburgh. He tells of his delightin the reading, and the fact that notwithstanding thesharp appetite of thirteen, he forgot the hour of dinner,being so entranced v/ith the book. To read and rememberv/as in this instance the same thing, and henceforth I over-whelmed my school fellows with tragical recitations fromthe ballads of Bishop Percy. The depth of the im-pression thus produced was shovm in his zeal for collectingold versions. As early as 1792 he commenced his annualraids of Liddesdale for the collection of songs, tunes,and even anticiue articles. Scott said to Ballantyne,the printer, I have been for years collecting old Borderball
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