Notices of Fugitive Tracts, and Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc

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Percy Society, 1849 - 96 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 68 - When first the Year, I heard the Cuckoo sing, And call with welcome Note the budding Spring, I straightway set a running with such Haste, Deb'rah, that won the Smock, scarce ran so fast. Till spent for lack of Breath, quite weary grown, Upon a rising Bank I sat adown...
Sayfa 38 - Book :" but from my mother, who had stored up the literature of a country town, which, about half a century ago, amounted to little more than what was disseminated by itinerant ballad-singers, or rather, readers, I had acquired much curious knowledge of Catskin, and the Golden Bull, and the Bloody Gardener, and many other histories equally instructive and amusing.
Sayfa 56 - I'll speed me to the pond, where the high stool On the long plank hangs o'er the muddy pool, That stool, the dread of ev'ry scolding quean...
Sayfa 85 - THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF MONTELION, KNIGHT OF THE ORACLE, SON TO THE TRUE MIRROUR OF PRINCES, THE MOST RENOWNED PERSICLES, KING OF ASSYRIA ; shewing his strange birth, unfortunate love, perillous adventures, &c., adorned with suitable cuts, and interposed with a variety of pleasant and instructive stories.
Sayfa 86 - The History of the Life and Glorious Actions of the mighty Hercules of Greece, his encountering and overthrowing serpents, lions, monsters, giants, tyrants, and powerful armies; his taking of cities, towns, kings, and kingdoms, &c.
Sayfa 25 - The Bedlam is in the same garb, with a long staff, and a cow or ox-horn by his side ; but his cloathing is more fantastick and ridiculous ; for, being a madman, he is madly decked and dressed all over with rubins, feathers, cuttings of cloth, and what not > to make him seem a mad-man, or one distracted, when he is no other than a dissembling knave.
Sayfa 65 - THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Sayfa 64 - OF SPINDLESTON HEUGH, a song above five-hundred years old, made by the old mountain-bard, Duncan Frasier, living on Cheviot, AD 1270. Printed from an ancient manuscript. 12mo., 1785. It is unnecessary to say that this ballad is a modern fiction ; but it is not generally known that it is founded on an old tradition which is still current in the north of England.
Sayfa 54 - Ay,' says the rest of the company, 'it is a good thought'; and up brisked the fairy father to the bedside, and called out the lady, who did the office ; for which the father gave her a large diamond ring. All this while the lady's husband was as fast as a church and knew nothing of the matter. But in the morning, good lack, the case was altered ; he espied the fine ring upon his wife's finger : ' How came you by that, my dear ?' says he. ' Why, my love,' replies she, ' the fairies have been here...

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