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AMERICA

... and, if we may believe the last acconuts, was already the heroine of the day. Sonnets and serenades were as pleutiful as blackberries. The season at Washington is unusually gay. The British minister and lady are remarked for their gene- rous hospitality ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1851
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1452 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CONTEMPORARY PRESS

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

Published: Sunday 09 March 1851
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2068 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

OUR CARPET BAG

... letter a thousand miles for a penny, and buy a week's reading for twopence. We publish books faster than brambles bear blackberries, and produce plays as fast as the French write them. We can feed paupers on nisepence halfpenny a day, and make artificial ...

Published: Sunday 23 March 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1520 | Page: 13 | Tags: News 

PEARLS FOR STRINGING

... his sociability rendered tortuous by individual egotisms, andhy the vicious nature of ourinstitutions. LIFE is a field. of blackberry and raspberry bushes. Mean people sluat down and pick-therfruit, no matter how they black their fingers; while geuins,.ud ...

Published: Sunday 06 July 1851
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1584 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER

... age of such common growth that they did not seem to him worth legislative notice. He would as soon think of pro- tecting blackberries. Now, the mechanical improvement made by A to-day, and patented, could very possibly occur to B to-morrow. But may we not ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1851
Newspaper: The Examiner
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 10188 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

APPROACHING CRISIS IN FRANCE

... French Press, scarcely one of the'wortby officiials -iav6. ~ ?? 'huslightest.s'catacity Codjdctis are. as plentiful as blackberries as to how the game will -come off between thie Pe'sident and 1the Chamber.,. The''nine, pins he has set up, the' Pr ...

Published: Sunday 02 November 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE PREMIER'S PLUNDER BOON to Ireland.—Injustice to England

... just pro- portion of debt due to the State ? Nobody in Eng- land is exempt. Distress warrants for poor rates are common as blackberries, we are sorry to say, amongst the hard workers here; why should the lazy, improvident, extravagant, repudiating Irish ...

Published: Sunday 09 November 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER AND THE POOR

... hag taken us by surprise. But a few days ago -not a month-we saw the common butterfly glad. somely coquetting among the blackberries on the sunny side th hedge; the bee busily engaged among Autumnal blossoms, as though loath to retire from business-and ...

Published: Sunday 07 December 1851
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 765 | Page: 9 | Tags: News