Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballading
Literary usage of Ballading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1909)
"But his ballading days did more than suggest certain themes: the experience
simplified his style and encouraged him to adopt a more self-effacing prose than ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... like Sir Richard Blackmore, to " the rumbling of bis chariot wheels," but to
the rattling of bis shuttle: he was known as " the ballading silk-weaver. ..."
3. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Such were the medieval plays on Robin Hood, dramatic offshoots of popular ballading;
and such were later the crude dramatized chronicles like Jack Straw and ..."
4. A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil by Jean Jules Jusserand (1906)
"... prostitutes, aged courtiers, Puritans, bad poets who bring The art of poetry
to ballading; " Nature's Embassie," by the same, 1621 (and Boston, 1877), ..."
5. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"... "the ballading silk-weaver," who could turn into rime a chapter or two from
Malory, and so make a ballad of Sir Lancelot.2 These men often inserted ..."
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