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LIKE SHIPS UPON THE SEA

... germinate in the poorest ground, then as successive growths of this weed decay and vegetable mould accumiulates, r spberry ind blackberry vines spring up from seeds brouglht by bilrds. Theru come the birches and mountain cherry trees, sheltered at first by the ...

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 ...

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 

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 ...

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 

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 ...

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 ...

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