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... Hills. In the auturmn of 1856, a woman living near 51assachusetts went out with her baby, a boy about a year oldi to pick blackberries in a field near her house, and set her charge on the grass, while sbe gathered the rrnit. As long as the little fellow ...

SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly

... rurallife, nearly faultlese. The second best picture in the room is a little unpretending beauty (numbered 340), Gathering Blackberries, Eliza Adams. This is a bi'jou, a perfect gem, and must become a favourite of every visitor to the gallery. There are souse ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE EASTER AMUSEMENTS

... descending daggers, the rescues, combats, deeds of heroic bravery, and feats of femrafle heroism that blossom, thick as blackberries, in every scene, Wve should be accecused of dealing in hyperbole instead of sober fact. We would, therefore, advise every ...

Published: Sunday 11 April 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16469 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ARTS

... distant branches, and mark how natti- rally the lost child is huddled up, after crying itself to sleep, and letting the blackberries fall from c its little apron, and we are sure they will be grati- fied. Turning, also, to the first picture-to that shady ...

THEATRES, &c

... the ballad, is bare softened dosvn to a mere temporary indisposi- tion arising from a too heartily-enjoyed banquet upon blackberries. A little of the fairy element is introduceed by the transformation of the corps de ballet into a flock of fairy-birds ...

Published: Sunday 24 July 1859
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2389 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

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 ...