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GOSSIP ABOUT DUBLIN.*

... the number of luxurious aristocratic mansions was sxceeding great. In Dublin, lord# and their ladies were plentiful as blackberries. Immediately after the Act of Uuion their numbers began to dwindle. In 1820 but few were left, In 1846, not one, it would ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... d2 the dramtatis personse are all brought together, virtue Is rewarded, vice-is punished, and-money is as plentiful as blackberries are in autumn. Mliss Myra -Helms msde a very pretty picture in her. riding-habit a a haute equestrienne, and was properly ...

THE THEATRES

... vehicle waiting at ~Iho Leok at Sutton, as originally' produced at this theatre two years ago. Te zp!~ ?? Un`,~'anfl Blackberries will be given on Saturday next at the Royalty Theatre.- ' A new eomio opera, entitled The Fairy Eing,' by Oswald Brand ...

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... murmnre~e oo, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sib listening the drops round them beat And the boy crouhes dlos to the blackberry wall. The swa~ows alone take the torm en their wag And, tsuntlng the trsobeltredi labonrers, sinkg. Like pebbles the yam ...

MARLBOROUGH FOREST

... of the days when we went gipsying -a long time ago-spare them for the children to gather the flowers of May and the blackberries of September. When the orange spot glows upon the beech, then the nuts are ripe, and the hawthorn bushes are hung with ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1875
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2065 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

The Home

... very gently until they are tender, withont their breaking. While the apples are cookinc stew withl sugar half a pound I of blackberries, and when thley are soft put them on one side till the apples are ready. Place the apples on a dish. In each apple gut ...

LITERATURE

... deprecates his own presumption in venturing to print a poem. The charge in this lament we cannot admit. Poets do not grow like blackberries in a hedge. They are rare in every age asd country, and the last forty years have been as prolific of the true genius as ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1644 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A GARDENER'S PARADISE.*

... wi4 blackthorn, which, tho-ugh a plum, is so nearly allied toapear that pears may be grafted on it. And then brakes of blackberries, especially of the parsley- lerired kind, so free of growth and se generous of fruit. . . . +. The grass shoul d be left ...

LITERARY GLEANLNGS

... how early the little lads ceased to eat the bread of idleness. The smallest of them would be sent to gather mushrooms and blackberries. They were soon fitted out with a dinner satchel and a pair of clappers, and sent to scare the birds from the newly-sown ...

THE READER

... mother-sheep, the feeding of the cattle, and the clover meadows. We are taken into the lane and examine the hedges, the blackberries, and the cottage, and we hear the song of the thrush ; into the woods in tender spring, in green summer, and golden autumn ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1882
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2008 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

A TOUR TO GUERNSEY AND THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... sea; but, though iso-I lated, the gardeners are well defended; each man isa soldier, and batteries are as plentiful as blackberries. Au I Bud how loyal are these gardeners; in each drop of their blood is refleeted the image of our good and gracious Queen ...

PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ART

... monochrome of ornament; Mliss Long, a number of. v srins. .. nise of flowers and plants from nature, designs. aindt ung: a blackberry branch in sepia of great merit; Mliss C.t H. -Gillman, large group in oil and small studies, the for-t met inciudiriz one ...