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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 ...

LITERATURE

... Houleton and Wright, Paternoster-Tow. A capital number is the one before us, and though the articles of contents hang like blackberries on an autumn bush, all ripe and tempting, the very abundance confounds us, and our appetite, cloyed in the general taste ...

Published: Sunday 10 June 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3399 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MR. MAYALL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition

... MR. M1YAL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC Exbibition. Exhibitions of works of art and paintings are common on the hedges of life as blackberries in antnimn, and though our collections of home and foreign pictures, in both water and oil, are beautiful as they are familiar ...

Published: Sunday 19 August 1860
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... reasons. We give a new name to a phenomenon, aud faney we have given a reason. Facts, not reasons, are as plentiful as blackberries. Frtxcons DVArc.-A foreign gentlemen, who calls himself Monsieur Francois D'Arc, is at prosetit trav'elling quietly about ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... sensibly may this be done, inasmuch as Irish otors ho can dowithont themappear to be becoming as plentiful as the seasonable blackberry. Of Mr. Dion DUrciCrault's excellencies we have recently spoken. This week we have to record the remarkable suoress of the ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... water to read of the fruits of California. Peaches of the finest flavour; apricots a drug; apples and pears; stravrberries, blackberries, and whortleberries; fresh figs, nectarinesI and all kind of plums, grapes, and melons in great bhun: dance; with a fruit ...

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