Excerpt from Games and Songs of American Children About the fifteenth century education came to establish between the different ranks of society intellectual differences which had previously been non-existent. Superior minds came to entertain for the old type of song a distaste which was enforced by the advent of printing; ballads in the ancient manner were composed only in rural districts, or left to the lips of the vulgar, on which they acquired a rustic accent. With game-songs the process has corresponded, save that ...
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Excerpt from Games and Songs of American Children About the fifteenth century education came to establish between the different ranks of society intellectual differences which had previously been non-existent. Superior minds came to entertain for the old type of song a distaste which was enforced by the advent of printing; ballads in the ancient manner were composed only in rural districts, or left to the lips of the vulgar, on which they acquired a rustic accent. With game-songs the process has corresponded, save that owing to the absence of print such change was postponed. 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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