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... very miserable and minnikin transactions. But what is wanted in quality amply made up in quantity. Reports are as plenty blackberries, and the bewildered public, like the man who could not see the wood for trees, scarcely know what going on abroad from ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1840
Newspaper: Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

-rlrft ponry

... bright gems; The bell and the ox lip shoot A the lower stems,— ‘Where mingle with the bawthora tree ‘The holly aud the blackberry 5 And little sound is, ever, heard To check the thrusb and linnet’s cong; The flutter of a scared bird, Sometimes the branches ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1847
Newspaper: Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GIPSY B I V o I AC

... yonder the daisied knoll The centre of a whining brood. Brown the hazels which they steal A Gipsy Beauty stood. Blacker than blackberries her eyes. And still not blacker than the hair. Which lolled in lazy Hakes upon Her olive shoulders bare. Here were they ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1849
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

(Cxmtinxmitl (Phtmult

... yon consent to stop here eating blackberries until return.” What nonsense von talk 1” cried Ironbooet. tell you I am decidedly resolved not to loiter on the race; and my fixed determination to not In eat any blackberries.” M Then move on before me,” said ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1840
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3328 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

-riff! porin’

... bright autumn gems’. The Mae bell and the lip shoot Among the lower stems,— here mingle the hawthorn tree The holly and the blackberry ; And little sound is, ever, heard check the thrush and liuuet song; The Hutter of scared h»»(J, Sometimes the branches ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1847
Newspaper: Weekly Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Tlin MINISTERIAL INTERREGNUM

... breakup of the Government would be communicated to both 1 louses Monday evening last. Humours are of course, plentiful blackberries, and the lists of probable successors to office winch ate handed about, are numerous and varied enough to pertpit half ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1846
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GREAT REPEAL MEETING IN SAGGARD

... good Father Mathew. (Cheers.) I heard that Saggard blackberries were plenty that you put them up into stacks; and if such fellow were amongst you now, you have not, all your stacks, sufficient blackberries to pelt the fellow. Mr. Mooney in his excellent ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1840
Newspaper: Vindicator
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 885 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SEPTEMBER

... furnish the farmer with a cordial cup on his return from market on a winter’s eve, blackberries, reminding of the Babes in the Wood ; ° « Their little hands with blackberries Were all besmeared and dyed. And when they saw the darksome night, They sat them ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1844
Newspaper: Belfast Protestant Journal
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1068 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Original Poetry

... al' black as the wing o' the raven The tresses that twined roun' caressin' her neek As dark wvere lier Een as the jet ripe blackberry, Whan glist'niit' in dew, shed frae nature's full eye, Throughl which her soul beam'd, like thte bright star o' e'enin ...

THE PUBLIC ROAD

... ocean. CarriatUes roll past, one aftrci another, hlt I fullow l, not; my glance rests tipon one spot-a solitter's grave, e blackberry and the sloc spring, upll letween the stones. i1l re lives the poetry of nature ; how thiiikest tbout man V,,:is it ? Listen ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1847
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 702 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE O’CONNELL BANQUET

... ere Lord Camoys, W. S. Crawford, Archbishop Murray, John Tuam, and host of others—in fact, ajiologies were as plentiful blackberries, and the excuses to elude attendance were as varied they were ingenious.— We have given, at considerable length, the speech ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1844
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 743 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

mr. Samuel weller and his father. (From 44 Master Humphrey Clock So. VI) The last extract which we made from

... as ever I heerd tell on, includin’ them as wos kivered over by the robin redbreasts arter they’d committed soeicide with blackberries, there never any like that ’ere little Tony. He’s alvays playin’ vith a quart pot that boy is! To see him a settiu’ down ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1840
Newspaper: Belfast Commercial Chronicle
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 727 | Page: 4 | Tags: none