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... Charles Lamb - Pągina 50per Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 182 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1916 - 690 pągines
...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... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 314 pągines
...from the Gnat which preluded to the -ZEneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. " In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. " A fashion of flesh, or rather pink-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
| 1850 - 814 pągines
...describe? the ' paragraphs' that then formed a chief feature in the journals : — ' In these days every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its...shorter they might be, but they must be poignant.' One gentleman always made use of the same joke, when the channel of his original wit had run dry, and... | |
| Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 318 pągines
...from the Gnat which preluded to the jEneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. " In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. " A fashion of flesh, or rather pink-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 pągines
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pągines
...from the Gnat which preluded to the jEneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of flesh, or rather pzni-colored hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture when... | |
| 1892 - 916 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pągines
...which preluded to the ^Eneid, to the duck which Samuel Johnson i rod on. ;240 ESSAYS OP ELlAi ibovc all, dress, furnished the material. The length of...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of flesh, or rather pink coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pągines
...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... | |
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