FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... and, if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries. It is now stated that the monarchs of Austria, Prussia and Russia will meet at Warsaw in the middle of the month of March ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1851
Newspaper: Standard of Freedom
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1800 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT

... if we may believe the last accounts, was already the heroine of the day. Son- nets and serenades were as plentiful as blackberries. The celebrated Spontini, the author of La Vestale and Fernand Cortez, has lately died, at Jesi, his native place ...

THE PULPITS

... that if our life bad been as short as theirs, they would have totally defeated us in the competition for nuts and ripe blackberries. I can bardly agree to this extravagant state- ment; but I think, io a life of twenty years, the efforts of the human mind ...

Published: Tuesday 11 February 1851
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 6035 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

“ Oh, what a noble mind ia here o’erthrown! ”

... homoeopathy ; that dying people communicate sensations to others hundreds of miles away ; that ghosts are as plenty as blackberries ; that black cat is the associated symbol of death, when it walks over a bed ; that people read ‘with the soles of their ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1851
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

... thirty-sevon this year. It is decidedly in bad taste to attend the funeral of black friend, and then inform your Mends yon black-berrying. A schoolmistress asked child what 8-e spelt. Tha child hesitated. - What Ido when I look at you*’ TkqyimX?' replied the ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1851
Newspaper: Nairnshire Mirror
County: Nairn, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2294 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Reviews

... ; how many violets I have picked there y- in March-how many lilies of the valley in May I 'ert How many strawberries, blackberries, and filberts I have eaten ; how many butterflies and lizzards I n a have pursued and caught; how many nests I have of ...

Reviews

... paths ; how many violets I have picked there in March-how many lilies of the valley in May ! l1 How many strawberries, blackberries, and filberts G, I have eaten ; how many butterflies ani lizzards I d have pursued and caught; how many nests I have discovered ...

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1351

... and au absence of defined meaning here. Natural price ! Why there is no such thing in the world, ex- cept in the case of blackberries, and scarcely even in their respect, strictly speaking. Corn, as it is brought into the market, is uot a natural produce ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1851
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5254 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHAPTER IY. A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF WORK

... whilst the old man was chatting with Tim Bradley under the cool shade of the trees, she’d be off with the little ones, blackberry-hunting, or looking for wild flowers to take home with them. Ah ! there’d be no complaining then, she’d warrant. At last ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1851
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3099 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BUDGET

... tax for one window, and a new house of £24, the owner of which pays no window-tax at all, such cases are ns plentiful as blackberries, the occupier of the house who now pays 16s. per annum, (deducting the 10 per cent, which was only levied as a temporary ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1851
Newspaper: Kentish Independent
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1448 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT

... ing for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles Loch, who was defeated by Mr. James Baird for the Falkirk bear blackberries, and produce plays as as the French will also be a candidate, write them. We can feed paupers on ninepence halfpenny Duke ...

Published: Tuesday 04 March 1851
Newspaper: Glasgow Courier
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2037 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A RELIGIOUS AFFRAY AT EAST QRINSTED

... the name. If versifiers were synonymous with poets, we should have the latter in abundance. They would be plentiful as blackberries fact which is abundantly testified by the intolerable quantity” of lines which every year ushers into existence. There ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1851
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9879 | Page: 4 | Tags: none