...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...the Gnat° which preluded to the .Sneid, to the Duck0 which Samuel Johnson trod on. In those days, every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...establishment, kept an author, who was bound to furnish 30 daily a quantum of witty paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought pretty high too —...

...the statement of another eminent contributor, Charles Lamb, who says of Stuart's management that " chat of the day, scandal, but, above all, dress, furnished the material," and in large measure the manufacture of jokes. Sixpence a joke, he says, was the recognised tariff,...

...joke, and Charles Lamb, writing in 1831 of "Newspapers Thirty-Five Years ago," says that "In those days every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant." Of his own efforts at sixpenny joke-making, he writes ruefully: "No Egyptian taskmaster ever devised...