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LITERATURE

... ever I heerd tell on, inclulin' them as wvas kivered over bh the rohin redbreasts arter thev'rl committed snoicide with blackberries, there never wass say like that 'eme little Tony. He's alvays a plamin' vith it quart pot that boy is ! To see him a settin' ...

THE IRISH SERVANT'S STORY

... sprung over the bridge wall and got away; and what, to betw een living in a lime-kiln for two months, eating re nothing but blackberries and sloes, and other disguos , 5t he never returned to the army, but ever after took to a is civil situation, and dric ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... belongs to us all. Whether the Germans mean now to run upon Burns, and produce translation on translation of him, thick as blackberries,-thick as English Fausts -we cannot say. Four in one summer do seem to be enoughi! But the Germans themselves can look ...

OCTOBER

... abundant berries,-the wild rose with the hip, the hawthorn with the haw, the blackthorn with the sloe, the bramble with the blackberry; and the briony, privet, honey-suckle, elder, holly, and woody night-shade, with their other winter feasts for the birds ...

LITERATURE AND ART

... modest heath-bell and the violet turn up their dark blue eyes to him; if an intermediate wilderness tempt him, he will find blackberries enough (as Falstaff's men did linen .) on every hedge. Dinoer served up, and to his mind, he warms and waxes cosey, koks ...

Published: Sunday 06 December 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6739 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE POACHER

... ceal the game, wehich a little shrimp like Joey coald do without being suspected lo be otberwise employed than in picking blackberries. Before he was seven years old, Joev could set a springe as well as his father, and was well versed in all the mystery ...

Published: Sunday 13 December 1840
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8507 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NOTABILIA

... and fishes; sometimes many colours at once, like the peacock; or changeable like the chameleon; or successive, like the blackberries, which are first green, and then red, and then purple ? Surely there be objects for ornament, as well as things for use-or ...

LITERATURE

... CrtuI SSANK'S OuNiBus. (Conductors, Tilt and Bogue.)-To use a common expression, periodicals are becoin. ing as plenty as blackberries. Every month we have some new one in the field courting our criticism with the editor's compliments. It is true that very ...

Published: Sunday 13 June 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3116 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... recommended from his end of the festive board some black pudding or polony in mourning. The dessert in- cluded black grapes and blackberries ; the rules of the club were printed in black-letter; the toasts of the day> were written in black and hite; the pictures ...

Published: Sunday 04 July 1841
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4403 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE STAGE

... J. hi. PlGnI sabl have an answer next week. ?? M.'s ' Friendship' is declined, for the followving reasons (plentiful as blackberries) - as lhe is particular about reasons - 1st. His lines are not grammatical. Tni. 'hey are nbt rhythmical. Xrd. 'ihey are ...

THE SHAKSPERIAN GALLERY

... inlt. Wby hein g sonto tof le, art thou so poi ited at t SIiall the blessed sun ofl' heaven prove a niicelte r aid eat !blackberries 't a question lot to be asked. Shall the sol ont Eligland prove a thief, anid tahe purses' a question to he asked. There ...

THEATRE-ROYAL

... of the mind, we are sure that she be does. In these days, when the Wilhiems, Mainzers, and HIllaals are 1 plentiful as blackberries, there is no diffi- - clty of acquiring some lnowlodge of the vocal art. Yesterday evening, As Yott Like It was repeated ...