...Johnson's, in which he mimicked the style of the early ballads : — As with my hat upon my head I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Now the rhyme is there good enough, but no one will say that there is any poetry in it. And as you...

...raise the combatants are lost. Dr. Johnson's mimicry of the simple style of the old ballads is good:— As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With /Hi hat in his hand. Nevertheless this jest is an edifying instance of a wit's not being always aware...

...with — Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat ; when he mimics the old ballad style, with — As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand,...there did meet another man With his hat in his hand ; and when, again, he burlesques the prevailing style of epigram, in — If a man who turnips cries...

...down the Strophic road. Of the older ballad style, Johnson was one of the first parodists, with his— As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand,...there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Of later years we have had, among several, Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell, with his — It was the huge metropolis...

...tea-table that he could rhyme as well and as elegantly in common narrative and conversation. Thus: As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand. I there did meet another matt With his hat in his hand. Then, to render such poetry subservient to his own immediate use, he...

...credible fact and irrefutable logic. Witness these two examples : As with my hat upon my head I walked along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. The tender infant, meek and mild, Fell down upon the stone ; The nurse took up the squealing child...

...readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. Havkau, 197. Hound numbers are always false. 235. As with my hat * upon my head I walk'd along the Strand,...there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.* (leorge Sleereiu. 310. Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. Hannah More. 4fi7....

...Presenting to my contemplation A perfect point of admiration I As with my hat upon my head I walked e That 1 can bring to thee. The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o See BOSWELL, Life, vol. ii. p. 136 (ed. of Birkbeck Hill). "Or, to make such poetry subservient to...

...readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. Hawhins. 197. Round numbers are always false. 235. As with my hat * upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand.4 Georye Steetens. 310. Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. Hannab More....

...though in fact a caricature of Percy's Hermit of Warkivorth — ingeniously parody their style : — ' As with my hat upon my head, I walk'd along the Strand,...there did meet another man, With his hat in his hand.' Broadside ballads, including a few of the genuine ancient ballads, still enjoy a certain popularity....