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LITERATURE

... to a clever writer's ordinary work. It is true that autobibgraphies of horses, dogs, Cats, and flies are i as plenty as blackberries and as old as the hills, in aliterary sense.; but though Mr. Bennett adopts the same style with his loquacious hero, the ...

Published: Sunday 14 December 1862
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

WIT AND HUMOUR

... is always bad for the pitcher. Tbe man who pays more for shop rent than for adver. sic don't understand his business. The blackberry is so named because it is blue, in order 0 distinguish it from the blueberry which is blacks. If you have a pretty daughter ...

COUNTRY LIFE

... unon differently d from that earned by steady-going labour on the field or farm. In their season he gathers cresses and blackberries, the embrowned nuts constituting an autumn in themselves. Snipe and woodcock which r come to the marshy meadows in severe ...

DRAMA

... their mansger, tr. enter tainments are still marked by the same taste and enteyprise. Music-halls are now as plentiful as blackberries, both in town and country, nod the capital invested in them has reached an amount almost equal to that invested in the ...

MUSIC-HALL NOTES

... Miss Loftus was uncommonly successtll with Eugene Stratton. Therefore, imitations of this imitation are nowV as common as blackberries were a few weeks ago. Miss Collie Conway lilerseiL has fallen into the snare, after setting it herself. Unless we are wlith ...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY

... little study of a tree by old Crome will fascinate all who appreciate truth to nature and power, to depict it. No. 42, Blackberry Gatherers, by Topham, is a delightful work by an artist too early lost to the world. There is a fine show of works by George ...

Published: Sunday 09 December 1877
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1674 | Page: 5 | 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 ...

NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... on horticulture in America atre pu blished simultaneously by Messrs. MNac- millanl and Co. There' are ' Bush vriuits I(blackberries, raspberries, ?? by Fred. W. Card, and Evolution of our Native Fruits,, by L. H. Bailey. Other recent volumes of technical ...

THE CATO DRAMATIC CLUB

... he possessed the istinet of an actor, but requires a world of study to make what tatlenIt he has avail- able. Mr James as Blackberry had that limp, creeping, dis- jointed, hroken-backed style which so many amateurs adopt when they play comic countrymseet ...

Published: Sunday 27 January 1878
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1425 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SOME LITERARY NOTES ON HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S

... from the windmills to the sea, and from the Barons of the Cinque Ports to the hut of the poor labourer, with his basket of blackberries. His tomb was erected by the Committee of the Religious Tract Society. Here have come Archdeacon Hare and John Sterling ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1776 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARISIAN GOSSIP

... a little towards the general suc- cess. Dramas in verse, are not, to quote a cynicalfriend, like lords, as common as blackberries. M. Richepin is a naturalistic poet, young in years and of the new school: a poet, in fact, whose verses have hitherto ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1722 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture