...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...settled remuneration in these cases. The chat of the da^ scandal, but, above all, dress, furnished the material. The length of no paragraph was to exceed...

...has more than hinted, and his biographer, Gillman, boldly declared. " In those days," says Lamb, " every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...scandal, but, above all, dress, furnished the material." A laborious editor of the time was Stephen Jones, the originator and many years compiler of a work...

...Observations prefixed to a Sketch of the French Revolution. By Sampson Perry. London : 1796. 2 vols. graphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high...but, above all, dress, furnished the material." The Oracle was, at one time, edited by James Boaden, the author of a Life of John Kemble, and of Mrs. Siddons....