Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
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Excerpt from Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect: With Notes Descriptive of the Manners and Customs of the Cumberland Peasantry, a Glossary of Local Words, and a Life of the Author Robert Anderson was born on the morning of the 1st of February, 1770, at the Dam-Side, a suburb of the city of Carlisle. He says of himself, "I was a poor little tender being, scarce worth the trouble of rearing. Old Isable, the midwife, who had assisted at the birth of thousands, entertained many fears that I was only sent to peep around me, shed tears, and leave them: accordingly, ere twelve times I´d seen the light, to the church they hurried me; and I have sometimes had reason to exclaim, Oh! that near my fathers they that day had buried me." The poet was the youngest of nine children, whose parents were at that time somewhat advanced in years, and suffering all the privations of poverty, with the tedium of toil. Robert, as indeed, it is probable, did all his brothers and sisters, owed the first rearing of his tender thought to the Mistress of a Charity School, instituted and maintained by the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, for the education of children only - an admirable institution, and to which the departed bard has many times acknowledged his lasting obligations. Having at this humble seminary of elementary learning conquered the "Primer," and the "Reading made-easy," he was transferred to the more pretending tuition of a master, by whom he was taught to write, and advance in reading and spelling. 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.
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