Identifier: gri_33125012902363 (find matches)
Title: The book of British ballads
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889
Subjects: Ballads, English
Publisher: London : J. How
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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d, therefore, universally appre-ciated. His appeals are made to sensations that are common to mankind. While itcan bear the test of the severest criticism, it is intelligible to the simplest under-standing. It speaks to the heart as well as the mind, and is as music to the ear.If he labours hard—as we believe he does—to render his verse easy and harmonious,he never permits the reader to suspect, that care to refine has lessened the power ofconception. He affords no evidence of fastidiousness in the choice of words, yetthey always seem the fittest for his purpose, and are not pressed into his service.He combines the rare qualities—not often met together—strength and smoothness ;yet his strength is never coarse, and his delicacy is never effeminate. Above all, itis to his eternal praise, that he has sought for themes only where a pure mindseeks them ; turning from the grosser passions, the meaner desires, and the vulgarsentiments of man, as unworthy the high calling of the poet.
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