Author: Charles MackayPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The cavalier songs and ballads of England, from 1642 to 1684, ed. by C. Mackay
Author: Charles MackayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684. Edited by Charles Mackay
Author: Charles MACKAYThe Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
Author: Charles MackayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387005431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, Jacobite Ballads, &c. &c
Author: Walter ThornburyPublisher:
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Category : Jacobites
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684
Author: Charles MackayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368305433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The cavalier songs and ballads of England, from 1642 to 1684, ed. by C. Mackay
Author: Charles MackayPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, Jacobite ballads, &c. &c. ... With illustrations by H. S. Marks
Author: George Walter THORNBURYPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Charles MacKayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781440074295
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Excerpt from The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England From 1642 to 1684 N 0 new ones of the kind are made except as miser able parodies and burlesques that may amuse sober costermongers and half-drunken men about town, who frequent music saloons at midnight, but which are offensive to every one else. Such genuine old ballads as remain in the popular memory are either fast dying out, or relate exclusively to the never-e to-be-superseded topics of love, war, and wine. The people of our day have little heart or appreciation for song, except in Scotland and Ireland. 'england and America are too prosaic and too busy, and the masses, notwithstanding all their supposed advan tages in education, are much too vulgar to delight in either song or ballad that rises to the dignity of poet ry. They appreciate the buffooneries of the Negro Minstrelsy, and the inanities and the vapidities of sentimental love songs, but the elegance of such writers as Thomas Moore, and the force 0 4. 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.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The bibliographer's manual of English literature, containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, publ. in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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