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CORA LINN

... the way, Put forth their golden pride. Even hedges, busk'd in bravery, Look'd ricn that sunny morn, The scarlet hip and blackberry So prank'd September's thorn. In Cora's glen the calm how deep! Its trees, on loftiest hills, Like statues stood, or things ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1838
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

WHEN I WAS IN MY PRIME

... morning mist and evening haze, Unlike the cold, grey rime. Seemed woven waves of golden air, When I was in my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flavoured then ANd hazel nuts such clusters thick I ne'er shall pluck again; T. Nor strawb'ries ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... Jones's prophecy, that the days of the Abergavenny Eisteddlod are numbered—I think not. False prophets are numerous as blackberries. Whether the Bard will be an unit in addition to these, time alone can reveal. I sincerely hope, for the next Eisteddfod ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1848
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

... Best making ave raged from .f 3. to £3. is. ; seconds, f 2. Os. to I'2, At this fair, pickpockets were as plentiful as blackberries. One of the gang was detected robbing a woman of her purse, and was consigned to durance vile. Mr. Gwyn, of Mitchel Troy ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1845
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... through a linen cloth, is left to ferment. It is then boiled again, and ahowed to ferment in suitable casks. In Provence, blackberries are used to give a deep colour to particular wines. A waiter at a tavern being reprimanded by the master for not attending ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1831
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE, Ike

... winters, and the quantity it produces late in the spring. It is a curious thing that the only native fruits of England are the blackberry, elderberry, acorn, and hips and hawes. For every thing else, both fruits and vegetables, we are indebted to other countries ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 441 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CHIT CHAT CONCERNING WOMEN AND BOOKS. -

... effigy, nor Bristol in reality. Women WOMEN against the world. Of books it is hard to speak for they come upon us plenty as blackberries and yet leave time to the leading authors of the day to get up leading articles for every magazine that—shall we say swims ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1832
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

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... came into use. A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a patent for tan- ning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring and, after preparation, he stales, quilt; equal to oak bark. ere and evil so nearly balanced ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1837
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

NOTICES FOR THE MONTH

... saffron butterfly appears. Hips and haws now ornament the hedges. The berries of the briony and the privet, the barberry, the blackberry, the holly, and the elder, from which is made the famous winter wine of old Eng- land's peasantry, with sloes, bullaces ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1849
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

SPORTING

... a pair of shoes attended the Epping Hunt yesterday. The coaches, cabs, and carts on the Essex road were as plentiful as blackberries, and were drawn by horses of all sorts and sizes, consisting principally o — or,, Higghng, jiggling, Hiesledy, piggledy ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1836
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 646 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MERTHYR

... of a Poor man's family, have contributed to establish the beer shops and Dowlais, which in these places are plentiful as blackberries. Knowing the many evils arising from the old practice of payment, Sir John Guest has made arrangements for the substitution ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1844
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 685 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CHEPSTOW

... another world. The deciding party is not to be dragooned into either of these alternatives. Ifreasons were as plenty as blackberries, this prolific year for such food, he could not give one: and, moreover, h(J probably thinks, that as trigger-pulling is ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1844
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 813 | Page: 3 | Tags: News