The Newspaper Press : Its Origin, Progress and Present Position, Volumen1Tinsley, 1871 |
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... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . · pp . 81-120 CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER PROGRESS TILL THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Appearance of New ...
... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . · pp . 81-120 CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER PROGRESS TILL THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Appearance of New ...
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... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . · pp . 81-120 CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER PROGRESS TILL THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Appearance of New ...
... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . · pp . 81-120 CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER PROGRESS TILL THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Appearance of New ...
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... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals - Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . THOUGH , in adverting to the curious advertisements which appeared in the newspapers of an early date ...
... Duty - Dean Swift - the Tatler and Spectator Class of Journals - Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison - John Dunton - John Dennis . THOUGH , in adverting to the curious advertisements which appeared in the newspapers of an early date ...
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... duties was half - a - guinea per week ! Newspaper editors in our day do not , as a rule , think themselves over - paid ; but what would they think if some newspaper proprietor were seri- ously to propose to them to accept a salary of ...
... duties was half - a - guinea per week ! Newspaper editors in our day do not , as a rule , think themselves over - paid ; but what would they think if some newspaper proprietor were seri- ously to propose to them to accept a salary of ...
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... duty of three- halfpence be laid upon these newspapers , which , by reason of the coarseness of the paper , the generality of gentlemen are above conversing with , it would utterly extinguish and suppress the same . " Whether it was ...
... duty of three- halfpence be laid upon these newspapers , which , by reason of the coarseness of the paper , the generality of gentlemen are above conversing with , it would utterly extinguish and suppress the same . " Whether it was ...
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Página 143 - I wrote it in Exeter Street, I never had been in the gallery of the House of Commons but once. Cave had interest with the door-keepers. He, and the persons employed under him, gained admittance : they brought away the subject of discussion, the names of the speakers, the side they took, and the order in which they rose, together with notes of the arguments advanced in the course of the debate. The whole was afterwards communicated to me, and I composed the speeches in the form which they now have...
Página 185 - ... he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. King, lords, and commons are but the sport of his fury.
Página 57 - The ready and easy Way to establish a free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of re-admitting Kingship in this Nation.
Página 93 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 99 - These devils of Grub Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough ; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail ; so it goes round.
Página 411 - Ago," — which now relate to a period between seventy and eighty years since — some very amusing reminiscences of newspaper life at the close of the last and commencement of the present century.
Página 88 - Courant (as the Title shows) will be Publish'd Daily : being design'd to give all the Material News as soon as every Post arrives : and is confin'd to half the Compass, to save the Publick at least half the Impertinences, of ordinary News-Papers.
Página 394 - I gave thee so many talents, what hast thou done with them ?' Secondly, overwhelmed as I am with a sense of my direful infirmity, I have never attempted to disguise or conceal the cause. On the contrary, not only to friends, have I stated the whole case with tears, and the very bitterness of shame ; but in two instances, I have warned young men, mere acquaintances, who had spoken of having taken laudanum, of the direful consequences, by an awful exposition of its tremendous effects on myself.
Página 110 - Should Dennis publish, you had stabb'd your brother, Lampoon'd your Monarch, or debauch'd your mother ; Say, what revenge on Dennis can be had ? Too dull for laughter, for reply too mad : On one so poor you cannot take the law ; On one so-old your sword you scorn to draw ; Uncag'd then let the harmless monster rage, Secure in dulness, madness, want, and age.
Página 101 - This is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp and an approaching peace.