Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballats
Literary usage of Ballats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow by Dougal Graham (1883)
"... and ballats occupied a " far-ben corner o' the heart" of our Fathers and
Grandfathers; indeed we have a ..."
2. Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of by John Milton (1819)
"... ballats and roundels could reach to6: Or if it were for his broad verses,
mentioned, Thales of Miletus. But he has not recorded any further connection ..."
3. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"January, and on the 31st; his Majesty replies from his palace of Liu- lithgow,—that
as he never had heard of " sic ballats" before, he rather suspected them ..."
4. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... ballats, Greenes Pamflets, Euphues Similes, double V8 phrases, are too well
knowen to go vnknowen. Where the veine of Braggadocio is famous, ..."
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