In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, kept an author, who was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too — was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration... The Gentleman's Magazine - Página 2871871Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to Us establishment, kept an author, who was bound to furnish...high too— was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in tlrese cases. The chat of the clay, scandal, but, above all, dress, furnished the material. The length... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 páginas
...amusing essay, by Charles Lamb, entitled, "Newspapers Thirty YearsAgo," hesays — " In those days, every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...establishment, kept an author, who was bound to furnish a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too — waB Dan Stuart's... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1840 - 542 páginas
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| 1896 - 854 páginas
...all published poems in the newspapers. Lamb tried his hand at "jokes." "Sixpence a joke," he says, "and it was thought pretty high too, was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases," he says (Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago), and no paragraph was to exceed seven lines. In a letter... | |
| 1916 - 688 páginas
...finest-tempered of editors '* end " frank, plain, and English all over." The papers of that day kept an author " bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs....Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases." The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines. Fox Bourne gives a specimen of one of these which... | |
| 1850 - 430 páginas
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| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 páginas
...from the gnat which preluded to the ^Eneid, to the duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, sca.\.uJa.\.,V>\iV above all, dress, furnished the material. The length of no paragraph was to exceed... | |
| 1916 - 590 páginas
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| 1892 - 916 páginas
...himself and his sister in the Chancery Lane garret. In those days, he tells us, every morning paper kept an author, who was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. ' Somebody has said,' he adds, ' that to swallow six cross-buns daily consecutively for a fortnight... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 páginas
...from the gnat which preluded to the ^Eneid, to the duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...all, dress, furnished the material. The length of 110 paragraph was to exceed seven lines. Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion... | |
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