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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
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J. Franklin del. W. T. Green sc. HE ballad of HENGIST AND MEY is the production ofWilliam Julius Mickle. Its merits are not of a highorder ; but it supplies an example of a class, popular for atime, which came in between the rugged Nature ofthe old and the over-refinement of the new. It pro-fesses to be an imitation of the ancient ballad ; of thecharacter of which, however, it partakes but little. Theincident upon which it is founded is presumed to havegrown out of the wars between the Britons and theSaxons; and the Saxon story supplied the author with the ground-work ofanother heroic ballad, entitled The Sorceress, — these two being the principalcompositions of the kind produced by the author. He was born in 1734, at Lang-holm in Dumfries-shire, where his father was minister. He was early bound prenticeto the Muse; for although he entered into business as a brewer in Edinburgh, and paidmore duty to the excise than any other member of the trade, he had written two tra-gedies and hal

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