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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 ...

EXTRACTS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

Literary Notices

... from the sofa. Guide-booesh, and hanel-books, and notes, and glances, and loiterings, nnd peiscillingo, are ptentiful as blackberries, auid travellers so ilvariably and industriously keep their diaries, that it is to be feared, that writers are the majority ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... rie ornament is added at the Ivaist, or towards one shoulder; the greatest novelty in this way, however, is a bunch of blackberries, walnuts, chestiiuts, or some other autumn or winter fruit, imitated in plush or velvet. - Forn more ceremonious toilettes ...

FASHIONS

... unbecoming, tilted over the eyebrows, so that the wearer can see nothing above her boot tips, and trimmed with cherries or blackberries hanging feebly downwards, or, worse still, woollen lumps which resemble nothing in nature. A becoming hat or bonnet of ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1878
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 19 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... e ornanment le added at the waist, or towards one shoulder; the greatest novelty In this way, how. ever, 1s a hunch of blackberries, walnuts, chestnuts, or rome olter autumn or winter fruit, Imitated in plash or velvet. For more ?? toiettes satin and ...

BOYISH PROFLIGACY

... would be willing to acknowledge that facts equally melodraamatic-nay, tragical-were every day cropping up as thick as blackberries in every court, street, and alley within a hundred yards of the garish 'Theatre, where they sit in spell-bound attention ...

Published: Sunday 24 September 1865
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 9 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... I our fate's the same If he sball e'er Bnd me or you siok. Compliments to the fair sex are,, of course, as plentiful as blackberries in a Devonehire lane:- The world must now two Venuses adore Ten are the Muses, and the Graces hour. Such Dora's wit, so ...

NEWMACHAR FLOWER SHOW

... for the season 'I very good, and there was a commendable display of fie( marigolds. In fruit there were some excel- lest blackberries, gooseberries were fair, and ! wen there was a splendid sample of red cur. pot rants shown by Mr John Cooper, Bush, Stroloch ...

FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER

... bonnets these are it placed enpanocke, curving grasefully, and have a mnost dis- e titignd appearance. F'ruits, especially blackberries, of all 5 shades, are much worn; the little grains that enliven the rt hedges and fancy grasses are greatly in favour for ...

COMIN' THRO' THE RYE.*

... P ii'i. (in one of the lucid intervals) that the month which is not t ?? PVC , nightingales is a trifle early for ripe blackberries. Wh\ile n:ilx itO l . things, man and wvomnan become creatures of clingin, lips, gici nda shoulders, and veils of rippling ...