...call justice. But neither reason nor imagination have influence now, nor the reflection of Sheridan, " let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." A marriage to immortal verse is the worst kind of matrimony, in these unimaginative times;...

...sentiment was founded on a knowledge of man's nature, which was uttered long ago by a British statesman : "Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." How many local and national songs there are learned in infancy, and made sacred by the earliest...

...was his music, as much as anything else, that moved the heart of all Germany. Sir Philip Sydney, once said: " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.." Luther made the songs or hymns of Germany, and he also made her tunes. He wrote some of...

...she would hardly find it necessary to contend for any other. If there was wisdom in the saying — '-Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," much more wisely might the women of a nation say- — " Let us educate the children of tlie...

...masterpieces," would oblige. (3). Can anybody tell me when and where momas Osborne Davis 1814-1845) said, "Let me make the songs of a nation and I care uof who makes its laws "? HARMATOPEGOS. [Is not (3) usually attributed to Fletcher of ï«t ?Ü B"tlet...

...make almost any man a poet, if it be the poet's province to sing songs of defiance and war Î He who said, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," was right. Certainly the songs ol Elliott, under God, unmade the corn-laws of England. One...

...of England what GOETHE is to the peasant of Germany. He was a true philosopher who said, ' Let rue make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.' There is one writer who approaches nearer than any other to this standard, and he has already...

...and as Abel was a " keeper of sheep," his name was Abel Shepherd. (gnttits. TV,,;. — ••!..•(. me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," did not come from Washington Irving, bnt from Dean Stcift. Yonrs, etc., 8. LY TARIFF. —...

...kind of compact speech that takes the mind by assault, before words can be marshalled into line. " Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes their laws," truthfully indicates the power of music over the soul. But let us remember that what the...

...labouring-classes о England what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany. He was a true philosopher who said, 'Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.' There is one writer who approaches nearer than any other to this standard; and he has already...