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 - 263 ページ1871全文表示 - この書籍について
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 ページ
...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... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 ページ
...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... | |
| 1896 - 854 ページ
...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... | |
| 1916 - 690 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 ページ
...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... | |
| 1892 - 916 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 1856 - 408 ページ
...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... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 ページ
...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... | |
| Alexander Andrews - 1859 - 360 ページ
...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.... | |
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