The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . h understood in that spnere. Butit is most certain that their passions are very stronglyroused by a fanatic preacher, or by the ballads of Ghevy-Ghase, or The Children in the k7ood, and by other littlepopular poems and tales that are current in that rank oflife. I do not know of any paintings, bad or good, thatproduce the same effect. So that poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more pov/erful 1 dominion over the passions, than the other art. John Scott, a minor Snglish poet living from 1730to 1783, writes an ode ca
The rise of the ballad in the eighteenth century . h understood in that spnere. Butit is most certain that their passions are very stronglyroused by a fanatic preacher, or by the ballads of Ghevy-Ghase, or The Children in the k7ood, and by other littlepopular poems and tales that are current in that rank oflife. I do not know of any paintings, bad or good, thatproduce the same effect. So that poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general, as well as a more pov/erful 1 dominion over the passions, than the other art. John Scott, a minor Snglish poet living from 1730to 1783, writes an ode called An Apology, in which oneperson advocates a following oi earlier English models, whiletne poet reels that anytiiing not written on classical lines will not enaure• Pastoral, ana elegy, ana odei i,Vho hopes by these applause to me, iriend, may hope in vain-These classic tnings are not tne mode;Our taste polite, so much refmd,Demands a strain of different kind. 0000— 1. Burkes Works. On the Sublime and Beautiful. Vol. ,. *Go, court the muse or Chevy ChaseTo tell in Sternhold-a simple rhimosSome tale ot anoient Enfjlish times;Or try to win rude satires scold, who dirt around her many a random stain bestows. Or dull trite thoughts in songs hid the tuneful accents wake the echoes of Vauxhall;Or towrds the stage they thoughts inclineAnd furnish some half-pilfered play,To shine the meteor of the day. 0, Ho - though such the crowd peals or noisy praise procure;Will they the critic eye pass the ordeal of reviews?And who is he for whom theyll gainA niche in fames immortal fane? Johnsons word on ballads may be taken more or less as that of all the literary coterie of wnich he was the leader. Burke, we have seen, realized the attitude of the common people towards ballads, as did G^oldsmith. Boswell says, The conversation having turned on modern imitations of ancient ballads, and some one having prai
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