... attention. No. 205, The Path to the Village, Ly I Mr. Warren, is a very fresh and spirited little picture. j No. 214, Blackberry Gathering,' by the same artist, ! is executed with equal spirit, to which is added a | sparkling effect, and a well-sustained ...

... discern ; but a little j boy in tbe background is shocked at the child's temerity, and in his fright lets fall his basket of blackberries. The other children, who j have been culling flowers in the wood, look on with infantine amazement, and are perplexed to ...

... his simplicity. He, indeed, does not reason— he never did. His common- places and platitudes are, as before, as plenty as blackberries ; but they have lost their effect. The phrases which carried the applause of crowds have now become as impotent as they ...

... by stating that a measure on the subject will be introduced after Easter. The promises thus made are plentiful as blackberries in au- tumn ; but where is the realisation ? The next breath- ing interval is the short Whitsuntide holiday, and by this ...

... nature's own real wild fruits are superior to \ j those degraded specimens of human art. I never, ! for instance, saw finer blackberries anywhere than j | here, and would, if obliged to choose, give them the j I preference to all the other produce of the place ...

... Christ, with Martha and Mary; the folds of the dra- pery are well massed, but tl»e figures are out of pro- portion. The Blackberry Gatherers, by Mr. E. J. Cobbett, is a well painted picture, the faces of the children are very pretty; but although the ...

... ng than another, it is to be com- pelled to listen in silence to the orations of a man whose words are as plentiful as blackberries and whose ideas are in an inverse ratio. At all times, and under all circumstances, it is a nuisance ; but if the orator ...

... indifferent— sees a certain number of pictures or plays— and his critical education is complete- Were reasons as plentiful as blackberries, he will give you none. He deals about his judgments right and left— knocking down here, picking up there, according to ...

... of the composition. A Summer Afternoon is similar to his picture of last year, if we remember rightly, called the Blackberry Gatherers, and is equally well painted; but No. 332, The Way Round the Park, is an excellent specimen in his best style ...

... King Log as Sir William Gonnn at the head of the Indian armies. Rumours of augmentation of the army are as plentiful as blackberries ; but whether there is any good foundation for them is far from certain. Every branch of the service except the engineers ...

... alternately upon the sides are branches of stamped velvet leaves of several shades of green, mixed with small bunches of blackberries. These same berries, mixed with ?? buds and china pinks, of pink velvet with crape leaves, form the inside trimming. A ...

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