Scottish literature -- History and criticism
The diffusion of knowledge by means of the Chapbook practically began with the introduction of printing into Scotland. From the days when the _Gude and Godlie Ballates_ of the Wedderburns were put in circulation, down to the middle of last century, the chapman was a travelling...
The diffusion of knowledge by means of the Chapbook practically began with the introduction of printing into Scotland. From the days when the _Gude and Godlie Ballates_ of the W...
2. Part 2The chapbook period—if one may set limits where points are difficult to adjust—may be said to have extended from 1688 to 1830. From the date of the Revolution chapbooks graduall...
3. Part 3Sawny was a “blate wooer.” Having considered the matter, he thought it would be judicious to approach his sweetheart by means of her mother. After selling his coals one day, he...
4. Part 4_The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith_, is a notable chapbook, and cannot be overlooked in this connection. It is—as many of the chapbooks were—a condensation of a large...
5. Part 5_Rob Roy, the Celebrated Highland Freebooter, or Memoirs of the Osbaldistone Family_, and the _History of Paul Jones, the Pirate_, may be mentioned as typical examples of the Sc...
6. Part 6is worthy to be named with Lag for his exertions on behalf of the Prince of Darkness. Nor in the hour of death was he forsaken by his master. “For,” says the Devil,
7. Part 7“That night he was out, and had taken the key of the room along with him; I wearied waiting for him, and seeing a number of papers lying on the kitchen table, I bargained for th...
8. Part 8[20] A prevalent opinion among the common people of a by-gone day seems to have been that witches, brownies, and other “unco bodies,” were inhabitants of foreign countries. Here...
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