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Rural Notes

... as may be seen from the state of the pastures, the growth of mushrooms, and the development of rich, juicy fruit on the blackberry bushes. The heat has never been oppressive, and the nights, with a temperature ranging from 48 to 54 deg., have had just ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 38 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE BROOM-SQUIRE

... flashing eyes, and, holding out both her pahns before her, said, The child's mouth be that purple or blue-it's fits. It's blackberries, answered the seaman. ''They was nice and ripe, and plenty of them. 'Blaclkberries almost shrieked the hostess, ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1895
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4193 | Page: 14 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THREE NEW NOVELS

... picking leathers off a toad, or clothes off a naked man, and i} you squeeze a crab apple you get only sourness. Sloes and blackberries grow in the:same hedge, and their natures are as they began. Older they grow, they grow either sweeter or sourer. A screw ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... see it, and it was flattering to the crew, of whom each has a copy.- Were reasons as Falstaff observes, as plenty as blackberries, better could not be furnished. A Revieiw of the Causes, Tendency, ann Progress of the Revolution of Portugal. This will ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... and other tongues of Europe; and there is no lack of Orientalists and Russian scholars, while Chinese are' as thick as blackberries. But Zulu dictionaries are still unwritten, and Zulu literature cannot be said to attract the masses. The Zulus had danced ...

SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly

... rurallife, nearly faultlese. The second best picture in the room is a little unpretending beauty (numbered 340), Gathering Blackberries, Eliza Adams. This is a bi'jou, a perfect gem, and must become a favourite of every visitor to the gallery. There are souse ...

Published: Sunday 04 April 1858
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL EXAMINER

... care is taken not to lose the beauty of the story in burlesquing it. The stcenery by Mr Callcott is exceedingly good; the Blackberry Brake is quite equal in beauty to MIr Bever- ley's Mistletoo Home, and the Transformation scene, in which is shown ...

OUIDA ON THE PLAGUE OF BOOKS

... autobio- graphy in detail from the cut of their pinafores to the items of their menus, from their early recollections of blackberries to their present affection for white- bait or oysters. MUSHROOM AND TOADSTOOL LITERATURE, There must be a public which ...

MR. ARTHUR TOOTH'S FINE ART GALLERY

... of Mr. Mason is very apparent, especially in the odd, effective, but not true use of filmy white, in Mr. W. S. Coleman's Blackberry Gatherers. Mr. J. F. Skill's works are very careful and nice, especially Exterior of a Mill, Brittany (No. 53). Mr. W. S ...

Published: Sunday 17 April 1870
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 961 | Page: 5 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be qnoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean? Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, enzisha. bile, supposed to have been picking blackberries! The truth is, the ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2431 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES

... really droll and original piece of the elaborately far-ical kind-has been transferred to the ROYALTY, in association with Blackberries, in which latter piece Miss Alice Atherton pla3s very cleverly. It is unfortunate, though we believe ?? hle, that in 7itrized ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1226 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THEATRES, &c

... excitement, and most exacting in their demand for novelty. The most sanguinary and retributive Drama, though loaded thick as blackberries with crime, horror, and stern but poetic justice, seldom lasts for longer than a week or ten days, when the natural consequence ...

Published: Sunday 17 March 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5664 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture