 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 - Pagina 50de Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 182 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pagini
...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 /?znA-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pagini
...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 pagini
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pagini
...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...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of flesh, or rather p'nA-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pagini
...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 fash, or rather pink-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture,... | |
 | 1837 - 392 pagini
...EVELYN. Nos. 66 & 67.] SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1838. [PRICE Two PENCE. NEWSPAPER REMINISCENCES. In past days, every Morning Paper, as an essential retainer to its...Shorter they might be, but they must be poignant. A fashion of ßesh, or rather ptnA-colored hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pagini
...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 pink coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pagini
...from the Gnat which preluded to the -3îneid, 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 /liiii-coloured hose for the ladies, luckily coming up at the juncture... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pagini
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pagini
...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 ^mi-colored hose for the ladies, luckily coming" up at the juncture when... | |
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