Political ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

William Walker Wilkins

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Sujets

• English poetry
• 18th century
• Early modern period

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 9
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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POLITICAL BALLADS
I.VOL.LONDON
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.
NEW-STR£ET SQWARIPOLITICAL BALLADS
OF THE
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ANNOTATED
BY W. WALKER WILKINS
" not show the times so well asMore solid do thethings complexion of
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one hundred and haveNearly fifty years elapfed
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in but afterwards to fourtwo, augmentedoriginally
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—over little more than half a centuryextending
from the of Cromwell to theufurpationnamely,
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are various andvolumes in hands,"queftion by
more than others thetherefore reprefent fully any
to whichfatirical wit ofthe limited refer,period they
deferve a fowould notice, verythey fcarcely paffing
are the contents of them.and inaccuratepartial
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offo called but confift almoft
; entirelyproperly
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and other exaltedRochefter, per-Buckingham,
confiderablewho exercifed in their dayfonages,
A 3VI PREFACE.
influence about the and In theCourt, government
of the rather as an exercife of aand who,country,
than from anyfuppofed neceffary accompHfhment
withbafer amufed themfelvesmotive, occafionally
thethe foibles of andmajefl:y, expofingridiculing
Suchof their rivals for his confidence.
intrigues
of thewriters are nomanifeftly exponents popular
havemind : the vaft of theirmajority compositions
almofl: andfince fallen into oblivion,long negled:,
are never to much lefs influence,intereft,likely again
clafs of readers.any
Whilft other of literature hasevery department
been andthoroughly explored, amplified, varioufly
our modern Political and Balladsilluftrated, Songs
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Two caufes in be for the
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indifl^erence with which fuchAngular compofitions
have been hitherto treated. In the firfl;
place, they
are fo fcattered as to renderdiffufely hopelefs any
a individual to if fuch aattempt by fingle make,
were an entire colledion ofdefirable, them,thing
or indeed to it and;any approximation fecondly,
their merit.rarely poflefling any literary
There few moreare, however, compofitions