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LITERATURE

... deprecates his own presumption in venturing to print a poem. The charge in this lament we cannot admit. Poets do not grow like blackberries in a hedge. They are rare in every age asd country, and the last forty years have been as prolific of the true genius as ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1861
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1644 | Page: 5 | 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 

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 ...

LEEDS AND THE EXHIBITION OF 1862

... FRUIT OF THE YEAR.-It this neighbour- fI boot, however it may be elsewhrere, wild fruit, such as fr-i r hws, hips, and blackberries, are this year uncommonly th I scarce. On high hawthorn hedge-rows, which in fonner- su. I years were ,white with blossonm ...