 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1736 - 400 pages
...carry an Idea of Wickednefs and Reproach to them. A Ballad once fignified a folemn and facred Song, as well as one that is trivial, when Solomon's Song...applied to nothing but trifling Verfe, or comical Subjects. 4. Words change their Senfe by Figures and Metaphors, which are deriv'd from fome real Analogy... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1755 - 390 pages
...carry an Idea of Wickednefs and Reproach to them. A Ballad once fignified a folemn and facred Song, as well as one that is trivial, when Solomon's Song,...applied to nothing but trifling Verfe, or comical Subjects. L4. Words change their Senfe by Figures and '.taphors, which are derived from fome real Analogy... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1763 - 400 pages
...of Wickednefs and Reproach to them. A Ballad once fignified a folemn and facred Song, as well as'oge that is trivial, when Solomon's Song was called the...applied to nothing but trifling Verfe, or comical Subjects. 4. Words change their Senfe by Figures and Metaphors, which are derived from fome real Analogy... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1801 - 342 pages
...carry an idea of wickedness and reproach to them. A ballad, once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as one that is trivial* when Solomon's song...ballads : but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects. 4. Words change their sense by figures and metaphors, which are derived... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 320 pages
...an idea of wickedness and reproach with them. A ballad •once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as •one that is trivial, when Solomon's...ballads ; but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects. 4. Words change their sense by figures and metaphors, which are -derived... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1809 - 328 pages
...carry an idea of wickedness and reproach with them. A baftud once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as one that is trivial, when Solomon's Song was called the ballad e/ ballads ; but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects. 4. Words change... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...idea of wickedness and reproach to them. A ballad once signified a solemn and sacred song, as TV rll as one that is trivial, when Solomon's song was called...ballads : but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects. 4. Words change their sense by figures and metaphors, which are derived... | |
 | Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Ballads, English - 1876 - 572 pages
...is taken from Watts, to the effect that " ballad once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as trivial, when Solomon's Song was called the ballad...ballads; but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse." The " balade " as used by Chaucer and others was a song written in a particular rhythm, but... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1886 - 566 pages
...is taken from Watts, to the effect that " ballad once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as trivial, when Solomon's Song was called the ballad...ballads; but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse." The " balade " as used by Chaucer and others was a song written in a particular rhythm, but... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Ballads - 1894 - 336 pages
...signified a solemn and sacred song as well as a trivial, when Solomon's xxxi Song was called the ' The Ballad of Ballads,' but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse." Ballad-collectors, however, have never strictly regarded any one of these definitions, and... | |
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... them. A ballad, once signified a solemn and sacred song, as well as one that is trivial* when Solomon's song was called the ballad of ballads : but now it is applied to nothing but trifling verse, or comical subjects. 
