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MISCELLANEOUS

... about 1.000. There cannot be a more prin itive soil for estate occupied for centuries by family of distinction. The wild blackberry grows the middle of the lawn ; and the whole place is, rather was, In all the rudeness of nature. The thin coal and stone ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1846
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3423 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POETRY. ONCE UPON A TIME! mint', me of pleasant time, season long ago— Tn I've ever knoSim, Or ever now

... the detf. The morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold grey rime) woven warm golden hair— When I was my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flatouAl then : And nuts—such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1847
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RECOLLECTIONS OF OUR VILLAGE

... gather the decayed branches which had been blown from the trees, cowslips and mushrooms which grew in ilia pastures, tho blackberries which ' grew tie hedges, and the acorns which fell from the oaks autumn. In the summer, one or two i days the week they ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1847
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1605 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOUGHBOROUGH

... Gee, and Benjamin Smedley coming along the road. I was walking slowly down the hedge side towards home, and picked few blackberries. While I was walking along, both the Smedleys got over the fence into the Thomas Smedley knew me, and I did not take much ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1847
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2234 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ODDS AND ENDS

... Fortnight's Notice.—The Miliarias, sect in America, have fixed the 19th of October for the burning of the world. Blackberry Jelly —Blackberries (which are now in season) make a delicious jelly, of finer flavour than that of any other fruit. It is made in ...

Published: Saturday 09 October 1847
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2136 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POfiTR Y. THE NEW YEAR. (a medley.) (For the Leicestershire Mercury.) i. Breathe blessing on the Infantl Caress ..

... The morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air— When I was in prime. And blackberries—so mawkish now Were finely flavoured then ; And nuts—and reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1848
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 575 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... Working Cricket at Bel voir.—The annual meeting at cricket for given by Lord John Manners came off on Saturday last, on Blackberry-hill, near the Castle. The villages of Bran-ton and Knipton were chosen by his Lordship to contest for the premium this ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1848
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 7108 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Mr. Hudson is carrying out a rigid system economy in all his lines ; on some making dismissals, and on

... tbey sent the bellman round to announce their arrival; and. marvellous and absurd their tale is, find dupes plentiful as blackberries. It is scarcely ne_» s*ary tosay that they are a couple of impudent impo-tors. The one said to be the son of labourer ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1848
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 949 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CRICKET. Southwell v

... at Belvoir. The annual match i Cricket for five pounds, given Lord John Manners, came off on Monday and Tuesday last on Blackberry Hill. Lord John Manners was on tbe ground, and also the Lady Adeliza Norman. Two tents were erected, one of which attracted ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1849
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LONDON EXHIBITIONS OF 1849

... first gene j . Qt to state tuat this picture he quali y velvet dress admirably. He has some * C rk3 of no interest. The Blackberry Gatherers -P. F. Poole, A. A • tan younger brothers engaged as described ; the girl and tw j bri lliant-indeed the girl's ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1849
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1793 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... speaking, in gas, they made the streets almost as light as day, The V.R.s, and A.'s, and Welcome were as thick as blackberries; but some of the more considerable edifices much greater share of invention and cost had been brought into requisition ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1849
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6189 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Miscellaneous

... years Parent unknown, pauper, cholera, nine boors, oeu*. 9th. Taken In from Orange-street, half-starved, stom'Wli jun of blackberries.' How tragic in its brevity! Truly powerfully wri'ten ' volume in sentence. The Foreign and Colonial Mails for Octojer ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1849
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8772 | Page: 8 | Tags: none