... 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 ...

... for trespassing in a wood belonging to the Misses Starkey, of Hattrin Hall, and taking therefrom, on the 15th of October, blackberries (wild brambles) of the value of six- pence, or thereabouts. The gamekeeper stated he had cautioned the defendant more than ...

... 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 ...

... , seek for blackberries, and collected no small store. Oliver, stretching upward to a branch beyond Janey's reach, paused suddenly to laugh and to ask, as he turned the ripe branch towards her, Janey, do you recollect those blackberries? Oh yes ...

... wreaths of spring flowers, of ivy, passion- flower, May, convolvulus, apple-blossom, wheat and oat, with poppy, harebell and blackberry, &c., of jasmine and of lily and of rose, look as if artist and engraver had bent with unflagging delight, refreshing and ...

... as well as Raphael Mendoza himself could have done it. There once was a time when heroes of this sort were as common as blackberries, but of late years they have all but disappeared, possibly in consequence of the disuse of wet towels. At any rate it is ...

... apples and pears of small size, such as still grow in the Swiss forests, stones of the wild plum, seeds of the raspberry and blackberry, and beech-nuts, also occur in the mud, and hazel-nuts in great plenty. Near Merges, on the Lake of Geneva, a settlement ...

... The scene, as a matter of course, is laid in the highest circles of society. Dukes, princes, and marquises are cheap as blackberries in autumn. The Lady Hilda twice refuses to marry the hereditary Prince of Deutschland. The artistic taste of the company ...

... the best way they. can, head first or tail first. s Give you reasons upon compulsion ? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would not give you reasons upon compulsion? If Mr Stephen fails to accomplish all his wish, it will be due, we anticipate ...

... verdure, and green belts of trees, which droop over streams as bright and cool as those of New England. Here the familiar blackberry is indigenous, and the bushes which impede the travellerare covered with fruit. Wheat-fields, billowing beneath the cool ...

... prove an alibi for Francis. When one studies the question, proofs, as De Quincey says, rush upon one more plentifully than blackberries; there is a positive plethora of evidence, and one almost begins to wish that the case were less decidedly clear. Mr. Skeat ...

... no lemons, cherries, or currants raised at Fuhchau, and no berries of any kind, as strawberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, blackberry, raspberry, &c. The pine-apple, plantain, cocoa-nut, mango, and a fine variety of pumelo, are brought from Formosa or Amoy ...