Both Uses of
ballad
in
Jane Eyre
- …as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.†
Chpt 1
- She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(ballad) a song (or poem) that tells a story