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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 

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 ...

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 ...

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 

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 ...

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 ...

THE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER

... care is taken not to lose the beauty of the story in burlesquing it. The stcenery by Mr Callcott is exceedingly good; the Blackberry Brake is quite equal in beauty to MIr Bever- ley's Mistletoo Home, and the Transformation scene, in which is shown ...

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 ...

FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER

... with black chenille. The same trimming was placed on the curtain, and the cap was made of blonde, with pink velvet and blackberries. The flich is growing in favour daily. At one time we see the fichu Marie Antoinette, of black lace or richly embroidered ...