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Title: Lays and ballads from English history, etc
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Smedley, Menella Bute, 1819 or 20-1877
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Publisher: London, E. Lumley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in this country, Songs or Ballads, fays Addifon, the creation and the de-light of the commonality, cannot fail to pleafe all fuch read-ers as are not unqualified for the entertainment, by their affec-tation or their ignorance; and the reafon is plain, becausethe fame paintings of nature which recommend them to themoft ordinary reader, alfo recommend them to the moft re-fined. The celebrated Cowper was ftrongly attached to this ftyleof Ballad compofition, and fays it is a fpecies of poetry pecu-liar to this country, and well adapted to the drolleft fubjecls.Simplicity and eafe are its peculiar characleriftics. Our fore-fathers excelled in it, but we moderns have loft the art. Itis obferved that we have few good Englifh Odes: but tomake amends we have many excellent Ballads, not inferior,perhaps, in true poetical merit to fome of the very beft Odesthat the Greek or Latin languages can boaft of. MR LUMLEV, 4o, COWER STREET.Specimen oj Illujlrations oj Ballads and Metrical Tales, page 5.
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Nowe fain thee and fave thee, thou little foot-page,Nowe welcome art thou to me ;Oh, tell me how does thy ladye gaye,And what may thytydinges be. * My lady me is all woebegone, And the teares they falle from her eyne,And aye fhe laments the deadlye feudeBetweene her houfe and thine. BALLADS,NORTHERN, SCOTCHMINSTRELSY. 2S. MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. 7 Choicefl POEMS and SONGS of SCOT-LAND, Ancient and Modern, and alfo theFavourite Jacobite Songs, 15 Exquiftte Illus-trations by Franklin^ Weigall, Mlan^ Scott,Topham, Gilbert, Jo1mfto?ie, d^c, 2s. Ar admirably managed Selection from therich and abundant ftores of this fong-lovingpeople. The pieces are not exclufively in theScottifh dialed, but varied more or lefs intheir ftyle and language by the Provincialifmswhich prevail in the North. Many are fo remarkably beautiful that theywell repay a little familiarity with the Dialect,to affift which, a copious Gloffary is added. This Exquifitely Printed, Lavifhly Illus-trated Book, will delig

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