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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 ...

THEATRES, &c

... difficulty attending it. But supposing that such productions as he requires were plentiful here as they are in France-thick as blackberries, which is by no means the case, how many actors and'actresses have we capable of dashing off a comic character to perfection ...

Published: Sunday 18 May 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2746 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRES

... Tom, like a black fever, will no doubt attack all the playhouses, and little Topsys'-of any size and weight-be thick as blackberries. DEATH OF MRS. MACREADY.-It is with great re- gret, we announce the demise of this amiable lady, on the 18th inst. She ...

THE PANTOMIMES AND THEIR Progress

... one for the children, exhibits Mr. Callcott's talents as a scenic artist in a prominent light, and the autumnal view of Blackberry Brake is one of those landscapes that the eye loves to linger on. The Caslsuies are very graceful dancers; Milano is brisk ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1857
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3135 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... be as drunk as a lord-expressed the popular notion of human felicity; but, since uncrowned kings have become commnon as blackberries, and attempts at assassi- nation have ceased to be a nine days' ionder, street boys and girls; of all ages, have adopted ...

THEATRICALS, ETC

... far uper ior to any of its predecessor The piece commences at the period when Mloses is despatched to sell the old mare Blackberry, and returns the dupe f ?? and o possessor of a gross of green spectanles in sha- green cases. The duties of Sir Williva ...

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 

LITERATURE

... is one whose bite is mortal), gambling, drinking, ague, fever, starvation, nrid' a thousand other liabilities thick as blackberries there- when you calculate the hardship of incessant toil and wet beds, with bad fare-whenyouaddtothesedangers and miseries ...

Published: Sunday 12 October 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3789 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...

LITERATURE

... often mingling with a small purple cranesbill, and a bright yellow oxalis; our bush bramble is own cousin to the British blackberry, and the native potentilla and willow-herb closely re- semble those of the Old World; whilst the genera clematis, veronica ...