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... raysont This explains the pun employed in the words, Give you a reaqon on compulsion ? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason upon ?? H. Griron's Shakspeare herw. SIBERIAN CRUELTY. The entire absence of sympathy withi ...

AN OLD-FASHIONED FIRST

... faithful, venerable, red-eyed spaniel, cannot stand our loitering any longer; he sees no beauty in the hedgerows heavy with blackberries, beautiful with clematis, and scarlet and yellow foliage, with hip and haw, and the bedeguar of the rose; he has no curiosity ...

New Novels

... that make at any rate the more tender-hearted class of readers inclined to feel sympathetically pitiful are as common as blackberries ought soon to be ; but a tale which makes us laugh, not at it, but with it, is a veritable treasure. He, or she, who can ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1883
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1649 | Page: 22 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

PARISIAN GOSSIP

... a little towards the general suc- cess. Dramas in verse, are not, to quote a cynicalfriend, like lords, as common as blackberries. M. Richepin is a naturalistic poet, young in years and of the new school: a poet, in fact, whose verses have hitherto ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1722 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

SOME LITERARY NOTES ON HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S

... from the windmills to the sea, and from the Barons of the Cinque Ports to the hut of the poor labourer, with his basket of blackberries. His tomb was erected by the Committee of the Religious Tract Society. Here have come Archdeacon Hare and John Sterling ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... d2 the dramtatis personse are all brought together, virtue Is rewarded, vice-is punished, and-money is as plentiful as blackberries are in autumn. Mliss Myra -Helms msde a very pretty picture in her. riding-habit a a haute equestrienne, and was properly ...

FLOWER SHOWS

... we're not many bouquets or floral devices. Fruit did not make up a large, class, and, excepting the F strawberries and blackberries, do6 not -call I for special nmentibn. Vegetables were well, C- Ithough siot largaly, tispresetited. Mr Jaomes Eddie, gr- ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... with one or two exceptions, has a good cast. Ladies who can speak English, sing, and act are not just now as plentiful as blackberries, i and Mdlle. Camille D'Arville, who acts the part of an Al. |satianglove-girl,proved an acceptable actress and vocalist ...

PARIS FASHIONS

... chenille fringe, either in single strands as thick as a cl i:lady's forefinger, set sparingly, and completed by an c acorn or' blackberry of clustered bugles, or a lose double row of small cbgalle. fdished oaf with beads, of I gold, amber, or garnet. Gold used ...

THE OLDEST ACTOR ON THE STAGE

... everything he says must be takea in good humour and in good truth. Transpontine authors were in my time as plentiful as blackberries, and almost as cheap; and I never,-as one of them, got upon an average a 5 note, until Mr Barrett gave me about six times ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1883
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2607 | Page: 8 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... uttering a preliminary clucking, addressed to her offspring, withdrew with them to the friendly shade of the hedge, where the blackberries, already ripening, clustered in purple bunches amongst the dark green leaves, Far below, beneath the sunlit nastures and ...

MAD JACK HALL OF OTTERBURN

... himself to General Forster. Aye, WVogan? Well, he'll be mighty acceptable, seeing that our recruits are not as plentiful as blackberries. What is his name? Mlr John Hall of Otterbarn. John Hall, repeated Forster, with a look of slight dis- apppointment; ...