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 106
... they beit to hae [ insisted on having ] their tithes of every thing that grew , mony a time my father wist ... lang prelatic fingers he wad a harled [ dragged ] the upper pair o ' blankets aff o ' the poor things bed , for some rent ...
... they beit to hae [ insisted on having ] their tithes of every thing that grew , mony a time my father wist ... lang prelatic fingers he wad a harled [ dragged ] the upper pair o ' blankets aff o ' the poor things bed , for some rent ...
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A sweet be wi ' us [ let's get on with it ] woman , is nit [ isn't ] an unco thing they dinna a ' flee on [ attack ] the minister , whan he flytes and misca's them sae , do ye think they hear him ? JANET . A doubtless but they hear and ...
A sweet be wi ' us [ let's get on with it ] woman , is nit [ isn't ] an unco thing they dinna a ' flee on [ attack ] the minister , whan he flytes and misca's them sae , do ye think they hear him ? JANET . A doubtless but they hear and ...
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I'm no saying that , ' responded Tam , ' but div ye think he wad lift a corpse , or any thing o ' that kind ? ' ' Surely not , Mr. Merilees , ' said the anxious elder , drawing his chair closer ? ' you do not mean body - lifting - the ...
I'm no saying that , ' responded Tam , ' but div ye think he wad lift a corpse , or any thing o ' that kind ? ' ' Surely not , Mr. Merilees , ' said the anxious elder , drawing his chair closer ? ' you do not mean body - lifting - the ...
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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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