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MR. BICKLEY'S CONCERT

... lover oi coursethe dlvine art can never be -out of season; but, then, genuine music lovers are not exaotly as plentiful as blackberries, and the Towii Hall is a large place to fill. Need we add, that it ,was not filled on this occasion? The audience was ...

MR. ARTHUR TOOTH'S FINE ART GALLERY

... of Mr. Mason is very apparent, especially in the odd, effective, but not true use of filmy white, in Mr. W. S. Coleman's Blackberry Gatherers. Mr. J. F. Skill's works are very careful and nice, especially Exterior of a Mill, Brittany (No. 53). Mr. W. S ...

Published: Sunday 17 April 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 961 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CITY GATE

... a field, with lovely green grass, dotted with the i brightest and most beautiful flowers, and studded with hawthorn and blackberry bushes, in which the birds gaily carolled from early morning to dewy eve. The only birds now in the neighbourhood are s ...

BAKER'S HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

... egarded ?? approval by those who inherit the morality of patl! age. In the sixteenth century they were as p'erty ful as blackberries, and wvcre not heeded ShortiY0. the first master of St. John's, became master ,- Pembroke, archdeacon of Bath, master of ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... beautiful ladies, escapes by miraculous interpositions, by sub- terranean passages, by the devotion of lovers, are as plenty as blackberries in September. There are infernal plots, generons brigands, valo- rons conspirators. A little one is continually putting ...

Literary Selections

... SMALL PHsILosorEsas.-The world is full of small philosophers, ready at a moment's notice to give you reasons as plenty as blackberries for anything whatever. They as a general thing believe that the changes of the moon have an important influence upon the ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... 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 ...