Excerpt from An American Garland: Being a Collection of Ballads Relating to America, 1563-1759 Holcroft wrote of the last years Of George the Second's reign: Addison writing some fifty years earlier refers to the same custom. My inquisitive temper, or rather impertinent humour of prying into all sorts of writing, with my natural aversion to loquacity, give me a good deal of employment when I enter any house in the country; for I cannot for my heart leave a room, before I have thoroughly studied the walls Of it and examined ...
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Excerpt from An American Garland: Being a Collection of Ballads Relating to America, 1563-1759 Holcroft wrote of the last years Of George the Second's reign: Addison writing some fifty years earlier refers to the same custom. My inquisitive temper, or rather impertinent humour of prying into all sorts of writing, with my natural aversion to loquacity, give me a good deal of employment when I enter any house in the country; for I cannot for my heart leave a room, before I have thoroughly studied the walls Of it and examined the several printed papers which are usually pasted upon them. The last piece that I met with upon this occasion gave me a most exquisite pleasure. My reader will think I am not serious, when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad Of the Two Children in the Wood, which is one of the darling Songs of the common people, and has been the delight of most Englishmen in some part of their age.'2 It was also the longest lived Of English ballads, since, though it was originally printed in 1595, it continued to be reprinted as a broadside for nearly three centuries.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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