Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 10 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 10 P. 300. I have serious doubts whether this Offensive ballad has not been made too important; whether, not withstanding the points noted at p. 301, it is anything more than a variety of The Queen of all Sluts.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 1 of 5 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 1 of 5 They followed these directions the king gave his verdict, the ambassador acquiesced, the minister received splendid presents. For a final trial the unfriendly king sent a long stick of wood, of equal thickness, with no knots or marks, and asked which was the under and which the upper end. N 0 one could say. The minister referred the question to his daughter. She answered, Put the stick into water the root end will sink a little, the upper end float. The experiment was tried; the king said to the ambassador, This is the upper end, this the root end, to which he assented, and great presents were again given to the minister. The adverse monarch was convinced that his only safe course was peace and con ciliation, and sent his ambassador back once more with an offering of precious jewels and of amity for the future. This termination was highly gratifying to Rabssaldschal, who said to his minister, How could you see through all these things? The minister said, It was not I, but my clever daughter-in-law. When the king learned this, he raised the young woman to the rank of his younger sister. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 5 of 5 written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 5 of 5: Part I Almeida - Garrett composed a little romance out of the story as here given, with the name Zahara for Alboazar's sister, and Gaia for Ramiro's wife, and making Ramiro cut off Gaia's head before he throws her into the water: Miragaia, ' Romanceiro, I, 181, ed. 1863. He informs us that he has interwoven in his poem some verses from popular tradi tion. A ballad of Ramiro, or at least some remnant of one, appears still to be in exist ence. Madame de Vasconcellos (1880) had heard two lines of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 3 of 5 written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3 of 5: Part I Rev. Professor skeat has done me the great service of collating Wynken de Worde's text of The Gest of Robin Hood, the manuscript of Robin Hood and the Monk and of Robin Hood and the Potter, and all the Robin Hood broadsides in the Pepys collection. Mr mac math has collated the fragments of the earlier copy of The Gest which are preserved in the Advocates' Library, and, as always, has been most ready to respond to every call for aid. I would also gratefully acknowledge assistance received from Mr W. Aldis wright, of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Rev. Edmund venables, Precentor of Lincoln; Dr and, in America, from Mr W. W. Miss and Mrs dulany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic 19th-century survey offers absolute fidelity to original texts as well as invaluable commentary by Francis James Child. Volume 1 includes Parts I and II of the original set — ballads 1-53.

Download or read book English and Scottish Ballads Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. 1 Book VIII. Miscellaneous Ballads, especially Humorous, Satirical. Burlesque; also some speci mens of the Moral and Scriptural, and all such pieces as had been overlooked in arranging the earlier volumes. For the Texts, the rule has been to select the most authentic Copies. And to reprint them as they stand in the collections, restoring readings that had been changed without grounds, and noting all deviations from the originals, whether those of previous editors or of this edition, in the margin. Interpolations acknowledged by the editors have generally been dropped. In two instances only have previously printed texts been superseded or greatly improved: the text of The Horn of Eng Arthur, in the first volume, was furnished from the manuscript, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq., and Adam Bel, in the fifth volume, has been amended by a recently discovered fragment of an excellent edition, kindly communicated by J. P. Collier, Esq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English and Scottish Ballads Vol 1 of 4 written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. 1 of 4: Eight Volumes in Four Book VI. Balladeof other Outlaws, especially Border Outlaws, of Border Forays, Feeds, due. Book vilhistorieal Ballade, or those relating to public characters or events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 8 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 8 Ballads Of this description are peculiarly liable to interpolation and debasement, and there are two passages, each occurring in sev eral versions, which we may, without strain ing, set down to some plebeian improver. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 2 of 5 written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2 of 5: Part II G. Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 18, three stanzas; Jamieson, in The Scots Magazine, 1803, LXV, 698. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2 This ballad and the two which follow it are clearly not of the same use, and not meant for the same ears, as those which go before. They would come down by professional rather than by domestic tradition, through minstrels rather than knitters and weavers. They suit the hall better than the bower, the tavern or public square better than the cottage, and would not go to the Spinning-wheel at all. An exceedingly good piece of minstrelsy The Boy and the Mantle' is, too; much livelier than most of the numerous variations on the somewhat overhandled theme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Select Scottish Ballads Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by John Pinkerton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Scottish Ballads, Vol. 1 Thewchief compofitions in this volume, MY Loan, will be found to breathe the living fpirit of the Scotifli people, a race of men who have left monuments of their martial glory in every country. Yova Gxnca, it is hoped, will with pleaflxre here recognife the noble ardour your example lately tended to revive, by railing and commanding in perfon a military force in defence of your country, at a period when her natives had not difcernment to perceive, nor fpirit to za'ume, the privilegesof Britilh fubjeéts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 4 I would acknowledge with particular gratitude the liberality of the hon. Mrs max well-scott in allowing the examination and use of the rich store of ballads accumulated at Abbotsford by her immortal ancestor; and also that of lord rosebery in sending to Edinburgh for inspection the collection of rare Scottish broadsides formed by the late David Laing, and permitting me to print several articles. The rev. S. Baring-gould has done me the great favor of furnishing me with copies of traditional ballads and songs taken down by him in the West of England. I am much indebted to the rev. W. Forbes-leith for his good offices, and to MR mac math, as I have been all along, for help of every description. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English and Scottish Popular Ballads Classic Reprint written by Helen Child Sargent and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Popular Ballads The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, edited by the late Francis James Child, was published in ten parts, forming five large volumes, from 1882 to 1898. It contains three hundred and five distinct ballads, but the number of texts printed in full is much larger than this, for Professor Childs plan was to give every extant version of every ballad. Thus of No.4, Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, he published nine different versions; of No.58, Sir Patrick Spens, eighteen; of No.173, Mary Hamilton, twenty-eight, and so on. Each ballad has an introduction dealing with the history and bibliography of the piece, and containing a full account of parallels in foreign languages, and, in general, of the diffusion of the story, with other pertinent matter. There are also exhaustive collations, elaborate bibliographies, an index of published ballad airs, a collection of tunes, and, in a word, all the apparatus necessary for the study of this kind of literature. The present volume offers a selection from the materials collected and edited by Mr Child, and is prepared in accordance with a plan which he had approved. Each of the three hundred and five ballads in his large collection (except Nos.33, 279, 281, 290, and 299)is represented by one or more versions, without the apparatus criticus, and with very short introductions. The notes, which are necessarily brief, give specimens (and specimens only) of significant stanzas from versions not included in the volume. The numbers(1-305) and letters (A, B, etc.) correspond to the designations used in the large collection, and there is, in every case, an implied reference to that work for further information. For instance, The Twa Sistei s(No. 10)is here represented by two versions, A and B, selected from those published by Mr Child, which (as the note on p.642 indicates) are twenty-seven in number. To A is prefixed (both in this volume and in the large collection) a memorandum of the four sources (a, b, c, d) from which Mr Child derived this version. The text, as printed on pp. 18, 19, is identical with the text of a as edited by Mr Child, but the variant readings, fully registered in the large collection, are omitted. The short introduction to No.10 is extracted from Mr Childs eight-page introduction, to which the student who wishes to pursue the subject will naturally have recourse. Mr Childs own words are retained whenever that was possible. The present volume, it will be observed, is neither a new edition of the collection of Mr Child nora substitute for it. It differs from that work in scope and purpose. Yet it is, in a manner, complete in itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Scottish Ballads and Songs Vol 1 written by James Maidment and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Ballads and Songs, Vol. 1: Historical and Traditionary In availing himself of the labours of those who have preceded him in the same path, the Editor has uniformly selected that which he considered the best version. In some instances he has been so fortunate as to have had the use of original broadsides, some of them not later than the commencement of last century; three of them are in black letter, of a date still earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentary for each work. Volume III includes Parts V and VI of the original set — ballads 114–188.

Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3 A. A. 'joseph was an old man, ' Sandys, Christmas Birmingham chap-book, of about 1843, in B. Harris Carols, p. 123. B. Sandys, Christmastide, p. 241. Cowper's Apocryphal Gospels, p. Xxxviii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book English and Scottish Ballads Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Francis James Child and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English and Scottish Ballads, Vol. 2 O master, master, then quoth hee, Lay your head downe on this stone; For I will waken you, master deere, Afore it be time to gone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.