... bestow could be too great as a rcognition of his services, and a token of his country's gratitude. Titles, gifts, thick as blackberries, have been showered upon our victorious soldiers ; statesmen have been duly honoured and ennobled ! literary men have nut ...

... instead of ivy the care. Many a pretty site and picturesque nook and corner, which only afford shelter to the nuts and blackberries, might have had charming little villas and cottages nestling amid their rocks and foliage, if justice had been done to ...