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THE HOME OF SHAKSPEARE

... time. Who will give to Shakepeare a hardy vine-one that will bear him the Ipurple grapes9 Almonds, apricots, bilberries, blackberries, crabs, quinces, walnuts, and medlars are still to come. Who will help to make up these lists ? Some we may never hope ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1861
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2545 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... been satiated during the last few days. Railways acoidents murders, executions, and burnings have been as plentiful as blackberries. Of fires we have some sad records. Two occurred in London simdl- taneopsly ; and. in one which took place in Kent Street ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1861
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Birmingham Daily Post

... Castle yesterday morning. Leicester has been the scene of another Conser- vative gathering, which are becomiug as common as blackberries. Lord JOHN MANNERS was the chief orator, and he made the moat of his oppor- ! tunity. An old friend of his lordship's apologia- ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1861
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Birmingham Daily Post

... out to sea Nvith half their proper crews, and prophecies of the decadence of English naval supremacy were as plentiful as blackberries. It turns out that all these depressing assurances were. the merest creations of disordered fancy. Instead of relinquishing ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 4160 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FREDERIC DOUGLASS ON THE AMERICAN WAR

... and without appeal; while there is alrealy a pretty general impression that medals, having been nearly as plentiful as blackberries, are not as precious as ptearls, and the giving more will cheapen distinctions yet futher. As for taking any away that ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

... visited Cornwall, and not far from where the writer of this paper is now sitting is the lane where he and John Nelson picked blackberries, of which they made a meal, there being no person who would venture to entertain them after preaching. The county was then ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 938 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Birmingham Daily Post

... with a dozein suitors at her feet. Then the can- didates set to their work in good earnest. Speeches were as plentiful as blackberries. A score of people in want of amusement haad nothing to do but to shout in front of an hotel, and out casne a candidate ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1862
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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NEWS OF THE DAY

... few consecutive years happened to be tolerably perfect, alnd estimnates of one kind and another were as plentiful as blackberries. But a complete balanice-sheet is somethingabsolutely unattainable. Take the building accounts for ex- ample-which present ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2866 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... locked up. The statement of the prisoners that they were innocent men, had only come from Great l3ridge for a stroll to get blackberries, was not credited by the Court, and they were each ordered to be imprisoned for twenty-one days in default of their paying ...

Published: Tuesday 08 September 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Advertisements & Notices

... loaded with their pscatosial ?? Prer. A sar. accident occurred at St. Helens, on Sauday even- ing Some children were picking blackberries on a brook side, when the basket of one little girl, named Whittle fell into the water. The child woa3 trying to get it ...

DISTRICT NEWS

... with damaging a oence belonging to Mr. G. H. Tomlinson, farmor, of Sbech- wod, by trampling upon it whilst in search of blackberries, )D Sunday, the 4th of October. The case was proved by ?? Shuttleworth, gamekeeper to Mr. Joseph Small- vood. MAr. Tomlinson ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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NEWS OF THE DAY

... Ansdoll. Lady Margaret Page, by Maclise, sold for 135 gaineas ; The Mouth of the Scheldt, by MUller, 225 guineas.; T The Blackberry Gatherers, by Cox, 105 guineas; Old Mill at Bettws, painted in 1847 for Mr. Carritt, of this town, at a cost of £40 ...

Published: Friday 20 November 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3639 | Page: 2 | Tags: News