Ballad Maker

Word BALLAD MAKER
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His purpose: to visit the long-ailing Woody Guthrie, singer, ballad-maker and poet. ❋ Unknown (1962)

The ballad-maker and singer were both committed to the compter, but the poet defied government even while in the lion's den. ❋ Various (N/A)

[DE] These consist of a ballad-maker; a tapster; a drunkard; a rectified young man; a young nouice's new yonger wife; a common fidler; a broker; a iouiall good fellow; a humourist; a malepart yong upstart; a scold; a good wife, and a selfe-conceited parcell-witty old dotard. ix. ❋ John Earle (N/A)

"Pleasant Historic of Thomas of Reading; or, The Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West," by Thomas Deloney, a famous ballad-maker of the 16th century. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)

Professor Child, in printing this ballad in 1889, considered the details of the Russian story [1] (most of which I have omitted) to be so closely parallel to the Scottish ballad, that he was convinced that the later story was the origin of the ballad, and that the ballad-maker had located it in Mary Stuart's court on his own responsibility. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was in this way that Homer, the great old ballad-maker of Greece, wrote -- or rather chanted, for in his day pens were scarce, wire-wove unknown, and the pride of Moseley undeveloped. ❋ Various (N/A)

But, passing far beyond the plans of these small antiquarian pleasures, Percy's book immediately enriched our whole ordinary existence by making common property of those golden figures which the undying ballad-maker had enameled into the solid tissue of ❋ Gertrude Weld Arnold (N/A)

Virgil, on the contrary, had but little of the ballad-maker in his composition. ❋ Various (N/A)

The accident that led to this fortunate reconnoitre is not impertinent to our subject: in a time of dearth, which was severely felt in the city, the famous ballad-maker Delone composed a song reflecting on her ❋ Various (N/A)

+The Story+ is one which naturally attracted the attention of the popular ballad-maker, and parallel ballads exist in fairly wide European distribution. ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)

And this vivacity, this new beat of the heart of poetry, is common to Chaucer and the humblest ballad-maker; it pulses through any book of lyrics printed yesterday, and it came straight to us out of Provence, the Roman Province. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The ballad-maker might well ask, and one might reecho with Villon: "Mother of God, ah! where are they?" ❋ Unknown (1914)

The ballad-maker might well ask, and one might re-echo with ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)

The old ballad-maker does not vouchsafe explanations about persons and motives; often he gives the history, not expressly nor fully, but by hints and glimpses, leaving the rest to conjecture; throwing up its salient points into a strong, lurid light against a background of shadows. ❋ Unknown (1886)

As if it were not precisely the _gaudium certaminis_ that inspired the old border ballad-maker! ❋ Unknown (1886)

"Nay," she said, nodding kindly at me, "if this is to be no Crecy, then may I stop to see, as well as the ballad-maker, since he hath neither sword nor staff?" ❋ Unknown (1886)

The ballad-maker observes unconsciously Aristotle's rule for the epic poet, to begin _in medias res_. ❋ Unknown (1886)

They have always girdled a land of warriors and of people fond of song, from the oldest ballad-maker to that Scotch Probationer who wrote, ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Nothing can be less probable than that a Scots popular ballad-maker in 1719, telling the tale of a yesterday's tragedy in Russia, should throw the time back by a hundred and fifty years, should change the scene to Scotland (the heart of the sorrow would be Mary's exile), and, above all, should compose a ballad in a style long obsolete. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Border into his peace, and hanged Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie, with circumstances of treachery, says the ballad, -- as a ballad-maker was certain to say. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

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