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A YOUNG TRAVELLER'S AMERICAN TOUR

... roses, teeming with insects of every size and colour. We hardly moved a step without being caught by the broken branches of blackberry or raspberry-bushes, which hung or lay across the path, loaded with their delicious fruit. I am sure the lakes of red juice ...

THE THEATRES

... Tom, like a black fever, will no doubt attack all the playhouses, and little Topsys'-of any size and weight-be thick as blackberries. DEATH OF MRS. MACREADY.-It is with great re- gret, we announce the demise of this amiable lady, on the 18th inst. She ...

FINE ARTS

... appreciated in the summer, as a dessert at the Academy teast; and in the same class W. Hunt has some marvellously tempting blackberries and plums. T. Uwins astonishes with twoor three little pieces-specimen bricks of the edifice he raised else- where; and ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... murmnre~e oo, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sib listening the drops round them beat And the boy crouhes dlos to the blackberry wall. The swa~ows alone take the torm en their wag And, tsuntlng the trsobeltredi labonrers, sinkg. Like pebbles the yam ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... arrive in the very nick of time; hut the besrieo taper tir a enoetloers at tbe close of the year. The plain and heatthful blackberry is sitscceedetd by the whottleberry, the Voroort of fruits. pet, in the meantime. the larger kinds come In le .adapt teeamselvoc ...

THE DRAMATIC SCHOOL

... answered Mr. Howe's letter agreeably to the conse- cstive matter it contains, butreally it is such a jumble of philosophy, blackberries, briars, blindness, deafness, and (sad anti- climax) toothacheI that IFhardly know how to deal with it, and more ...

Published: Sunday 20 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

... In No. 70, Mr. G. Smith has produced an agree- c able picture of three rustic children busily occu- pied, in gathering blackberries from a hedge of ad brambles by a road-side; on the road stands a very do rudely-constructed little cart, in which an infant ...

LITERATURE

... the Immaculate Conception. Accord- ing to Cardinal Wiseman's own showing, immacu- late persons were as plentiful as blackberries in the later times of Pagan Rome. But to make up for the superhuman excellences of his Christians we have their persecutors ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Shall meet, and take thee by the handI But serve him not as who obeys: He is thy slave if thou command: And blossoms on the blackberry-stalks He shall enchant as thou dost pass, Till they drop gold upon thy walks, And diamonds in the dewy grass. Such largess ...

HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... the ?arity of true freedship, -lt this must, be a gloomy lih&oh4mayi nature, for sicerefriends, if not Ys plentifal is blackberries, are at least s. nnmerous aS n'wspapers.' pntif toto expereneeo, all readers of 'iiei public jouru'la..-,eitker,.dailor ...

THE DRAMA, MUSIC, ETC

... thoughtitbest~to ~lavethe children..behi'nd m h in tbe wood, wbich 'he did, where theya Ideiredup -andd down, living only on blackberries,, until they died of fatigue and 'hunger, under a tree and in each other's areas.; upon. which a di'ght Of robins, that ...