FINE ARTS

... artists who make no allowance lor the difference of the two suns. Of P. F. Poole, we prefer his least ambitious work, The Blackberry Gatherers. The headof the woman, and the way in which the hair is distributed, is of that classical turn, which is sometimes ...

THEATRES, ETC

... and we saw two or three rather stalwart persons carried away in a fainting state. Coats torn to shreds were plentiful as blackberries, and screams as frequent as the chirp of linnets in sunshine. Nevertheless the crowd bore all with exemplary| patience ...

Published: Sunday 13 May 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6496 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... Lady in Qaestion, in which Mir Stanley shone most con- spicuously, and met with unbounded applause, Bilberry, Mr Stoyle; Blackberry, Mr Wellsted; the Lady, Mrs Nunn; and Mrs Bilberry, Miss Gordon, were played in avery delightful, fascinating, and pleasing ...

Published: Sunday 30 September 1849
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3320 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ROTUNDO—THE ROOMKEEPERS' BALL

... Excellency and the Lord Mayor. The rest, Greeks, lurks, sailors, solldierslpnuns, niggers, &c., &c., were all as ri plenty as blackberries. All went off happily, and the festi- vities were kept up to a late hour, or rather an early hour a this morning. d RE ...

THEATRICALS, ETC

... far uper ior to any of its predecessor The piece commences at the period when Mloses is despatched to sell the old mare Blackberry, and returns the dupe f ?? and o possessor of a gross of green spectanles in sha- green cases. The duties of Sir Williva ...

Literary Extracts

... life..had been as short. as theirs,' they would have totall mim ut of diefeate'd ui'mts nh'e comphtitiOn' fr nuts and ripe blackberries. ithe our I.Tcan hil et bi'irvgti ttmn ;-Iti think, r thde~ in a life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind' m'c ...

LITERATURE

... mood. But the sun besmsgladly on the woods and fields that smile back upon him. as in an old and confiding affection. The blackberries hang thick or tie hedges; the mushroom springs white and fresh in the green pasture; the g-ornetrie spider hangs its web ...

LITERATURE

... around them, like well-drilled rows of charity cbildren out for a holiday walk; sud the grapes too, meorb plentiful than blackberries, hawked ia tbe streets and. old by the cwt. at a less' price than soap or sugar; not to mention peaches plucked for the ...

THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT

... if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Son- nets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries. The celebrated Spontini, the author of La Vestale and Fernand Cortez, has lately died, at Jesi, his native place ...

Reviews

... ; how many violets I have picked there y- in March-how many lilies of the valley in May I 'ert How many strawberries, blackberries, and filberts I have eaten ; how many butterflies and lizzards I n a have pursued and caught; how many nests I have of ...

Reviews

... paths ; how many violets I have picked there in March-how many lilies of the valley in May ! l1 How many strawberries, blackberries, and filberts G, I have eaten ; how many butterflies ani lizzards I d have pursued and caught; how many nests I have discovered ...