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THE DRAMATIC SCHOOL

... answered Mr. Howe's letter agreeably to the conse- cstive matter it contains, butreally it is such a jumble of philosophy, blackberries, briars, blindness, deafness, and (sad anti- climax) toothacheI that IFhardly know how to deal with it, and more ...

Published: Sunday 20 November 1853
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6463 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE SCHOOLBOY's STORY

... he bad helter run away until he found a forest, where he might change clothes with a woodcutter and stain his face with blackberries; but the ma0jority believed that if he stood his 1. ground, his father-belonging as he did to the West Indies, and Bbeing ...

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS

... In No. 70, Mr. G. Smith has produced an agree- c able picture of three rustic children busily occu- pied, in gathering blackberries from a hedge of ad brambles by a road-side; on the road stands a very do rudely-constructed little cart, in which an infant ...

LITERATURE

... the Immaculate Conception. Accord- ing to Cardinal Wiseman's own showing, immacu- late persons were as plentiful as blackberries in the later times of Pagan Rome. But to make up for the superhuman excellences of his Christians we have their persecutors ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Shall meet, and take thee by the handI But serve him not as who obeys: He is thy slave if thou command: And blossoms on the blackberry-stalks He shall enchant as thou dost pass, Till they drop gold upon thy walks, And diamonds in the dewy grass. Such largess ...

THORNBURY HORTICULTURAL SHOW

... Underbill contributed a basket ingeniously and beautifully ornamented with mess and berries, and containing crab-apples. nuts, blackberries, dewberries, elderberries, sloes, and other wild fruits; another very pretty basket of wild fruit was exhibited by Elizabeth ...

LOCAL LITERATURE IN THE LAST CENTURY

... The Farmesr. . The Lark' eshrill niote. e, 6. Platos advice. 7. Old Boreas. ?? When the rosy b morn appearing. 9. Betty Blackberry.l Onsomeofithe ,y title pages there appears, after the impriot, l Preston5. printed by B. Sergent, in the Market plaoe; ...

HUMOROUS GATHERINGS

... the ?arity of true freedship, -lt this must, be a gloomy lih&oh4mayi nature, for sicerefriends, if not Ys plentifal is blackberries, are at least s. nnmerous aS n'wspapers.' pntif toto expereneeo, all readers of 'iiei public jouru'la..-,eitker,.dailor ...

POETRY

... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sit listening the drops round them beat; And the boy crouches close to the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the tree-sheltered labourers, sing. Like pebbles the ...

THE DRAMA, MUSIC, ETC

... thoughtitbest~to ~lavethe children..behi'nd m h in tbe wood, wbich 'he did, where theya Ideiredup -andd down, living only on blackberries,, until they died of fatigue and 'hunger, under a tree and in each other's areas.; upon. which a di'ght Of robins, that ...

NOTES OF THE CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES

... the Cruel Uscte, a subject by no means new to the sphere of Pantomime, but here treated after a novel manner. The scene of Blackberry Grove, where the wood nymphs appear, and where the wild mani shuts up tile fairy of the forest in the trunk ol a large oak ...

Published: Sunday 21 December 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3830 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS

... take away the childena Ad mrde tem A Ithis period of the story a number of wood nymphs are in- troduced gathering blackberries in a blackberry brake. This is one of the most exquisite scenes in the whole panto- mime. Independently of its wonderful colouring ...