...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; but even...

...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 associations...

...the human heart has declared, with equal truth and sincerity, "give me the composition of the popular songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws ;" and although its hallowed influence over Public. Schools in Europe, and some sections of our own...

...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 the best hymns...

...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 nation,...

...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 purpose...

...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. — "Can you,...

...ascendancy. People say that we are to be left out here in the cold. It was Fletcher who said, "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." If we can make the ideas of a nation, who cares where the millions may dwell. Wherever they are, they...

...that wo are to be left out here in the cold. It was Fletcher, of Saltoun, who said, " Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." If we can make the ideas of a nation, who cares where the millions may dwell. Wherever they are, they...

...England has no poet who is to its laboring classes what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany, and said: " There is one writer who approaches nearer than any...cannot claim the honor of having brought him forth, but he still belongs to us, for his works have become as household words wherever the English language...