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... sovereign could not have been found within a thousand square miles tor fear of bushrangers; in England houses are as thick as blackberries, and sovereigns must perforce be kept in the house. Thus the English bushranger's preserve will be one of the most valuable ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... arrive in the very nick of time; hut the besrieo taper tir a enoetloers at tbe close of the year. The plain and heatthful blackberry is sitscceedetd by the whottleberry, the Voroort of fruits. pet, in the meantime. the larger kinds come In le .adapt teeamselvoc ...

three are sufficient, and more than smeficient, to sustain his reputation. In some respects we are scarcely ..

... than customarily. They sprout forth each season after the manner of those abominable reasons of Falstaff, as plentiful as blackberries. Several of them, however, will be examined with curiosity and satisfaction—this, too, not only from the recognised skill ...

Published: Monday 09 May 1853
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1688 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MAGAZINE DAY,

... Blackwood groups together a variety of amusing illustrations of what are now, like Falstaff's reasons, as plentiful as blackberries, New Readings of Shakspere. A clever epitome is next given of most of the facts yet known among Europeans in reference ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1853
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1738 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN

... murmnre~e oo, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds sib listening the drops round them beat And the boy crouhes dlos to the blackberry wall. The swa~ows alone take the torm en their wag And, tsuntlng the trsobeltredi labonrers, sinkg. Like pebbles the yam ...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL

... will make a struggle to here • and they ought, too, because there » room enough for ail. Man ! money here is plentiful an blackberries the barrack hills in harvest time. and body fora scanty subsistence ! Let artisans of all classes come in thousands; they ...

Published: Wednesday 02 February 1853
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1863 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Railway Accidents. A Hint to Prevent Collisions

... British Preference. The Samuel Douglass Testimonial. Testimonials are in these days of railway commotion as numerous as blackberries on a bush. It is quite right to testify to a man's merits. We say nothing against the prin.. ciple of the thing properly ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1853
Newspaper: Herapath's Railway Journal
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1877 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

FACTS AND SCRAPS—Original and Select

... in, no beds of water-cress, No woods to play the truant in when pedagogues oppress, No hedges and no gutters where the blackberries may bide, And wild roes-trees luxuriant trail in all their summer pride; No, none of these lI—I therefore feel to wish ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1853
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2193 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

PEACE, PIETY, AND PARADOX

... rarity in military talent? Let a revolution shake up society, and you have heroes, commanders, conquerors, as plenty as blackberries. It may be questioned whether the game of war requires much more skill than that of chess. And as for the moral purity ...

Published: Sunday 16 October 1853
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2272 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRANCE

... whom c could up to this time knock down with a feather. *ft troublesome times, when minders in this country plentiful as blackberries, I recollect at ***ght once crossing a pass through a mountain. Our party was suddenly brought to a halt by the guide ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1853
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1869 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THURSDAY

... moods. No cloud nor shadow were on the pages of the future. Riches of incalculable immensity ; husbands as plentiful as blackberries in the decline of summer ; pledges of affection in comfortable succession, but not too numerous to be agreeable, were all ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1853
Newspaper: Field
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1737 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INDIA HOUSE

... distinct in its are. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. REPRESENTATION OF TRALEE. Candidates for Tralee are as thick as blackberries. Mr. John Macnamara Cantwell has addressed the electors. The mere rumour that Mr. John Sadleir had intended to offer himself ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1853
Newspaper: Saint James's Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2097 | Page: 1 | Tags: none