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... Green clusters of the wilding grape, t Climber of Oaks! hang hi gh in air, ai And seedy fruit, of oblong shape, The rough blackberry bushes bear; The rauk cohosh wears snowy plumes, The peppermuint obscurely blooms In hollows dark aiid wet; Red beads the ...

A BATCH OF EPIGRAMS

... word remarked, moreover, will probably bethought IP To indicate compteteness, and so it ought. ot VHAT'S IN A NAME 7 at Blackberries, the proverb says, t Are not really black always. 3i Thin saew is edged with reason, It As we have seen this season ...

GOSSIP WITH THE CHILDREN

... silence, you may be sure. It was autumn,' and the blackberries were ripe. Now and then they came across a black- berry bush, and stopped to gather the berries before they went on. But as they met many a blackberry bush, and had a dispute over each one that they ...

VARIETIES

... Scotland. Tanning.-A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a pa- tent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, lie states, quite equal to oak-bark. During the lust three weeks the ...

THE TERCENTENARY FUND AND THE Dramatic College

... dilated with national prideas to pour out unbounded wealth to the honour of the Immortal Bard, that suggestions, plenty as blackberries, have been thrown out as to the best means in which to spend this anticipated redundancy, apart from the plans already ...

Published: Sunday 06 March 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 894 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE.*

... and the soul to feel them. A chlimp of hazel on the upland meadow, around which the daisies grow, and through %which the blackberry twines its white blo-ssoms, may he a wonder-world of bemuty if we study it in its formn and colour, its setting, light, ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

NEW BOOKS

... Aunt Dacic, Major Birt, Mlazie Birt, Lucelle McGregor, Dumphie McGregor, and the Rev. Louis Draycott were as plentiful as blackberries amongst us. These are the leading characters in Louis Draycott: the Story of his Life, by Mrs. Laffan (Chapman and Hall) ...

POETRY

... flocking birds to slay, Yet should'st thou in the danger ran, He turns the tube away. The Gipey boy, who seeks in glee, Blackberries for a dainty meal, Laughs loud oa first belholdieg thee, When called, so near his presence steal. He surely thinks thou ...

SHAKSPEREAN FESTIVAL at STRATFORD on Avon

... was told by Wilkinson that be could find better actors than Liston in every roadside hedge; they were as plontiful as blackberries! Some few days arter this unjust and, I need scarcely say, untrothsful remark, the Manager was taking his usual walk ...

Published: Sunday 26 April 1863
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1919 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ARTS

... appreciated in the summer, as a dessert at the Academy teast; and in the same class W. Hunt has some marvellously tempting blackberries and plums. T. Uwins astonishes with twoor three little pieces-specimen bricks of the edifice he raised else- where; and ...

POETRY

... you'll only do this- Give us but a fair field for our labour. MOrMes. We no charity ask, &c. Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. BLACKBERRY. ...