 THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion...  The Scottish Historical Review - Page 1281909Full view - About this book
 | Karen Newman, Owen Walker '33 Professor of Humanities Karen Newman - 2007 - 232 pages
...literate elites."25 Nevertheless, we should also bear in mind, as a privileged contemporary opined, "More solid Things do not show the complexion of the Times so well as Ballads and Libells."26 It is estimated that some 3,750 immigrants were needed annually to fuel the extraordinary... | |
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..." by which you may see which way the wind is ; which you shall not do by casting up a stone. . . . More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels." Their sale must have been great. Mr. Chappell has noted down " more than 250 ballad-publishers... | |
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