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 - Pàgina 51per Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 186 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1882 - 780 pàgines
...little ease ; and the shrunken skin scarce told a truer story than the crumpled coverlid ! 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... | |
| Joseph Hatton - 1882 - 272 pàgines
...days'" (he was writing about 1820 of "Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago"), says the gentle essayist, " Every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of flesh, or rather //«/fr-coloured hose for the ladies luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
| Joseph Hatton - 1882 - 274 pàgines
...about 1820 of "Newspapers Thirty-five Years Ago"), says the gentle essayist, " Every Morning I'aper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, kept...bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. S1xpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too — was Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pàgines
...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 //«£-colored hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1885 - 196 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1887 - 642 pàgines
...In those days," he reported, vcry morning paper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, » an author, who was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty ' ,,cri>\'^H> Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too — 4 l);in Stuart's settled remuneration... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pàgines
...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...seven lines. Shorter they might be, but they must bo poignant. A fashion of Jlesh, or rather jrinfc-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pàgines
...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...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of flesh, or rather //»/£-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 896 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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