Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 287
... Highland nor Lawland , but seem'd to be all of a mind ; For our Riflemen's actions and brav'ry , to Corbet great honour is due , Well show them that Corsican slav'ry with true Britons never will do . McCalaster's braw Highland Laddies ...
... Highland nor Lawland , but seem'd to be all of a mind ; For our Riflemen's actions and brav'ry , to Corbet great honour is due , Well show them that Corsican slav'ry with true Britons never will do . McCalaster's braw Highland Laddies ...
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... Highland English or Scots , the picture it presents of the ambitious Gael is unusual and very different from the stereotype of racial indolence and a supposed inability to adjust to the ' real world ' of capitalism , a notion which ...
... Highland English or Scots , the picture it presents of the ambitious Gael is unusual and very different from the stereotype of racial indolence and a supposed inability to adjust to the ' real world ' of capitalism , a notion which ...
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... Highland hills , Whar ne'er a ane sall turn her ; And no come near your turnimspike , Unless it be to purn her . each horse ground burn it In Four Highland Comical Songs . Kilmarnock : printed for the booksellers , early nineteenth ...
... Highland hills , Whar ne'er a ane sall turn her ; And no come near your turnimspike , Unless it be to purn her . each horse ground burn it In Four Highland Comical Songs . Kilmarnock : printed for the booksellers , early nineteenth ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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