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 115
... mind of the ten cities in the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah , destroyed by fire and brimstone from heaven ; the ten plagues of Egypt , with which God afflicted the Egyptians , when he brought the children of Israel out of that land ...
... mind of the ten cities in the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah , destroyed by fire and brimstone from heaven ; the ten plagues of Egypt , with which God afflicted the Egyptians , when he brought the children of Israel out of that land ...
Page 116
... mind , I've only one God to adore and serve , one Faith to believe , one Truth to practise , one Baptism to cleanse ... mind of nothing ? JACK . That is right , my Lord , I had like to have forgot , when I look upon the Knave , it puts ...
... mind , I've only one God to adore and serve , one Faith to believe , one Truth to practise , one Baptism to cleanse ... mind of nothing ? JACK . That is right , my Lord , I had like to have forgot , when I look upon the Knave , it puts ...
Page 171
... mind your business wi ' might , Lest unexpected gloomy night Shou'd you surround , And mingle a ' your pleasure bright . Wi ' grief profound . And bonny lasses mind this rhyme , As true as three and sax mak nine , If ye commit ye ken ...
... mind your business wi ' might , Lest unexpected gloomy night Shou'd you surround , And mingle a ' your pleasure bright . Wi ' grief profound . And bonny lasses mind this rhyme , As true as three and sax mak nine , If ye commit ye ken ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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