Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850Though 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 153
... give him the secret as soon as he's man . He needs no more knowledge , his wisdom will shine , And he'll pass through each lodge with a pass - word and sign . lynx Chorus In the evening tuned harping So sweetly did play 153 The Masons.
... give him the secret as soon as he's man . He needs no more knowledge , his wisdom will shine , And he'll pass through each lodge with a pass - word and sign . lynx Chorus In the evening tuned harping So sweetly did play 153 The Masons.
Page 340
He then charged the citizens of Dundee , under pain of death , to continue the blockade , and commenced his march , hastening to seize the important pass which divides the Ochil from the Grampian Hills , so that the English forces ...
He then charged the citizens of Dundee , under pain of death , to continue the blockade , and commenced his march , hastening to seize the important pass which divides the Ochil from the Grampian Hills , so that the English forces ...
Page 355
... it is nae joke , Will pass them as ye'd pass a brock ; Yes , if rotten breaths e're come abroad . At Maids they ne'er need shake their nod , Waes me ! They'll live a bachelor's life , And never , never , get a wife !!
... it is nae joke , Will pass them as ye'd pass a brock ; Yes , if rotten breaths e're come abroad . At Maids they ne'er need shake their nod , Waes me ! They'll live a bachelor's life , And never , never , get a wife !!
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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Allan appear auld began body boys called carried century chap chapbooks chapman clothes collection coming cries death door drink East Lothian Edinburgh English entered fair father fell four friends Gaelic give Glasgow Haggart hand head hear heard heart Jack James John keep King land lass leave live look Maggy means mind morning never night o'er pass person play poem poor popular present printed published reached remained Robertson round Saltmarket Scotland Scots Scottish shillings ship side soldiers song soon sure taken tell There's thing thought till took town true turn Wallace weather whole wife wind woman wonderful young
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| Title | Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 |
| Author | Edward J. Cowan |
| Editors | Edward J. Cowan, Michael Paterson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | John Donald, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1904607519, 9781904607519 |
| Length | 438 pages |
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