 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 - 1885 - 196 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...Sixpence a joke— and it was thought pretty high too—was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, scandal, but, above... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 páginas
...days " as he afterwards told the world in one of the Mia essays (Newspupers Tldrty-five Years Ago), " every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...cases. The chat of the day, scandal, but above all, dretm, furnished the material. The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines. Shorter they might... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 896 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. Ina letter... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1898 - 282 páginas
...frequently enriched the columns of " The Morning Post." "In those days too," as Charles Lamb says, " every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...joke — and it was thought pretty high too — 'Was settled remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, scandal, but above all dress, furnished the... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1898 - 526 páginas
...frequently enriched the columns of " The Morning Post. " "In those days too," as Charles Lamb says, " every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...joke— and it was thought pretty high too — was settled remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, scandal, but above all dress, furnished the... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1898 - 288 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 ' (Newspapers Thirty-five Tears dgo), and no paragraph was to exceed seven lines. In a letter of 1803,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 páginas
...from the Gnat which preluded to the yEneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and t it was thought pretty high too — was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases. The chat... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 380 páginas
...from the Gnat which preluded to the vEneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, kept an author, who 137 was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 páginas
...from the Gnat which preluded to the /Kneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. 15 In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...remuneration in these cases. The chat of the day, scandal, 20 but above all, dress, furnished the material. The length of no paragraph was to exceed seven lines.... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1906 - 504 páginas
...termed a beau-string. [Feb. ijth, 1802.] It is now time to quote Elia. " In those days [1801-1803] every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke—and it was thought pretty high too—was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases. The... | |
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