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 - Página 49por Alfred Ainger - 1883 - 186 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Connor Sydney - 1898 - 526 páginas
...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... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1898 - 288 páginas
...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,... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 páginas
...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 - 1913 - 484 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 380 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 páginas
...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.... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1906 - 504 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 páginas
...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 —... | |
| Reginald Lucas - 1910 - 492 páginas
...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,... | |
| Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 640 páginas
...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... | |
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