10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARAGRAPHIST»
Discover the use of
paragraphist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
paragraphist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
She's a paragraphist — a paragraphist: the vilest spawn on God's earth, a
paragraphist!1 What do you mean by setting spavined shorthand writers to report
my obiter dicta?"- He advanced towards me, striding: I had risen hurriedly. "Go off
!
Grant Allen, Clarissa Suranyi,
2003
... Willis offered Poe a position on the paper at $750 a year as an assistant editor
and what Willis later apologetically described as a "mechanical paragraphist" (an
image that makes one visualize Melville's "used up" copyist-clerk, Bartleby).
James M. Hutchisson,
2005
3
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
INVERSIONS OF THE LITERARY PARAGRAPHIST The gentlemen who provide
newspapers with short accounts of newly published books have an inversion
form all to themselves. The principle seems to be that the title of the book is to be
...
H. W. Fowler, David Crystal,
2009
4
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
29 Yet he also used it to his advantage, first publishing "The Literary Life of
Thingum Bob" anonymously in the Southern Literary Messenger, then calling
attention to it anonymously in his capacity as paragraphist for the Mirror: "A
broadly ...
5
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and ...
N. P. Willis met him one day in 1835, when, as Willis expresses it, Dickens was a
(( paragraphist " for the London Morning Chronicle. The (< paragraphist,"
according to Willis, was lodging in the most crowded part of Holborn, in an
uncarpeted ...
Charles Dudley Warner,
2008
Questions of language are not the trifles they appear, and I am quite serious in
holding that people who write in the tone of the Chronicle paragraphist not only
fly in the face of common-sense, but do grievous international mischief. Without ...
First Paragraphist — " Why not ?" Second Paragraphist — "Oh! Grant is over
there, and Evarts is trying to re-establish the extradition treaty, and it wouldn't do
now, you know, to write anything calculated to fire the British heart' First
Paragraphist ...
They delight in extending their munificence to the journalistic paragraphist, for to
them the insistent paragraph so frequently repeated keeps them in touch with
their public and enhances their diumal existence. That is why one reads
continually ...
9
Dust devils in the great desert: a study of the impress of ...
77 SIZING HIM UP (HsWG 10 #465, 3 May 1892 p 30 X 300. Humor dealing with
professions (Journalism) . Paragraphist . "Have you seen the new editor in chief
yet?" Literary Editor. "No, have you?" Paragraphist. "Yes, and I have been sizing
...
10
The Pall Mall Magazine
... the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is"cast" when a ship arriving at
an anchorage is brought up. The mistake of the paragraphist arises from the fact
that a particularly benighted landsman may imagine the act of anchoring as- ...