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 278
... death in a short time terminated his existence . I then was placed for the awful operation , which was performed on Christmas morning . The surgeon , being a fisherman , first began with a large seal knife , by carving the flesh off ...
... death in a short time terminated his existence . I then was placed for the awful operation , which was performed on Christmas morning . The surgeon , being a fisherman , first began with a large seal knife , by carving the flesh off ...
Page 298
... Death calls you to the crowd of common men . Devouring famine , plague , and war , Each able to undo mankind , Death's servile emissaries are : Nor to these alone confin'd 298 Folk in Print : Scotland's Chapbook Heritage Victorious Men ...
... Death calls you to the crowd of common men . Devouring famine , plague , and war , Each able to undo mankind , Death's servile emissaries are : Nor to these alone confin'd 298 Folk in Print : Scotland's Chapbook Heritage Victorious Men ...
Page 336
... death , who was killed at the battle of Loudon Hill , in 1293 , he was about fifteen years of age . His mother , after this disastrous event , fled with her son to the house of an uncle , where Wallace lived between two or three years ...
... death , who was killed at the battle of Loudon Hill , in 1293 , he was about fifteen years of age . His mother , after this disastrous event , fled with her son to the house of an uncle , where Wallace lived between two or three years ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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