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... 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 

FINE ARTS

... capital work. From Lord Northwick's collection, where it fefelled 52 guineas. 40 guineas (Pott). 81. P. F. Poole, R.A., 1 Blackberry Gatherers. Very richly coloured. A beautiful cabinet example. 44 guineas I (H83oPe. Muller, A Scene near Bristol.-A ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... really does not afford us the means of gratifying their desire. Mawkishness pervades its pages, and mistakes are plenty as blackberries. Such works, having to claims to literary merit, are only to be classed among trade specu- lations. Queen Hortense has ...

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL

... deserves the patronage extended to him. MESSRS. SA&MURL BROTHERS' NEW MAP *F LosDoir.-Maps of London are as plentiful as blackberries, and if this was nothing more than a Map we should content ounselves with merely giving its title and stating who were ...

Published: Sunday 29 June 1862
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3312 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... to a clever writer's ordinary work. It is true that autobibgraphies of horses, dogs, Cats, and flies are i as plenty as blackberries and as old as the hills, in aliterary sense.; but though Mr. Bennett adopts the same style with his loquacious hero, the ...

Published: Sunday 14 December 1862
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 6 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... apples and pears of small size, such as still grow in the Swiss forests, stones of the wild plum, seeds of the raspberry and blackberry, and beech-nuts, also occur in the mud, and hazel-nuts in great plenty. Near Merges, on the Lake of Geneva, a settlement ...

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

... in an rndian China jar, ,wiith a basket of red and white currants; (288) Quinces a and Plums, with a bunch or two of blackberries and some wild hips, is a wonderful fea of truthful colouring. The exhibition will be foamd an interesting one, though it ...

FINE ARTS

... its good painting. We noticed also a good study of an Italian woman though a very or model, by Madame de FeyL Miss mollae Blackberry Gatherers (204), Miss Brownlow's Farmer's Boy-Brittany, I and Miss Mutrie'a beautiful roses. are other pictures by ladies ...

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 

LITERATURE

... ezoommunicattoflh, asd rsuspensions, and threatening of the spirial rswrord twice sharpenedl, weres as plentiful as blackberries. But how werte the people gettinig on all this time I There were nO evil preachers of sedition in those days; there ...

PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS

... week, riter a e vrpepru eon AL R.ESCO 8om~esmeoti appear to be the rage just now, Cricket Clubs ace as plentifli ye blackberries. Every Saturday seen three or fear matehes played, and the dieplay of erioboting unmentionabieso and loot cas(wt wells ...

Published: Sunday 07 August 1864
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 14133 | Page: 12 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture