He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.
When found, make a note of.
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men of Genius. Miscellanists.
None of our political writers . . take
notice of any more than three estates, namely,
Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by
in silence that very large and powerful body
which form the fourth estate in the community
. . . the Mob.
Fielding—Covent Garden Journal. June 13,
1752.
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| text = Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones—let them read the papers.
Gabrick—Prologue to Sheridan's School for
Scandal.
The liberty of the press is the palladium of all
the civil, political, and religious rights of an
Englishman.
Junius—Dedication to Letters.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty
Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on
the public Management.
La Bruyère—The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. I.
The News-writer lies down at Night in great
Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged
to throw away as soon as he awakes.
La Bruyère—The Characters or Manners of the Present Age. Ch. I.
Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.
Every newspaper editor owes tribute to
the devil.
La Fontaine—Lettre A Simon de Troyes.
1686.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No
one ever lays one down without a feeling of
Charles Lamb—Essays of Elia. Detached
Thoughts on Books and Reading.
Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdoniai lally in a brown paper wrapper.
| author = Lowell
| work = Biglow Papers. Series I. No. 6.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred
thousand bayonets.
Napoleon I.
The penny-papers of New York do more to
govern this country than the White House at
Washington.
Wendell Phillips.
We live under a government of men and
morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips.
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
Prrr—To Lord Grenville. (About 1757)
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| work = Epistles of Horace. Ep. I. Bk. II.
L. 108.
Cela est escrit. II est vray.
The thing is written. It is true.
Rabelais—ParUagruel.
Can it be maintained that a person of any education can learn anything wortii knowing from a
penny paper? It may be said that people may
learn what is said in Parliament. Well, will
that contribute to their education?
Salisbury
| cog = (Lord Robert Cecil)
| work = Speeches.
House of Commons, 1861. On the Repeal
of the Paper Duties.
But I'll report it
Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles.
CorioJanus. Act I. Sc. 9. L. 2.
Report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 350.
Bring me no more reports.
Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 1.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous—licentious—abominable—infernal—not that
I ever read them—no—I make it a rule never to
look into a newspaper.
R. B. Sheridan—The Critic. Act I. Sc. 1.
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by,
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on,
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things,
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings.
Spraque—^Curiosity.
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
Joseph Story—Motto of the Salem Register.
Adopted 1802. Wm. W. Story's Life of
Joseph Story. Vol. I. Ch. VI.
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
Thackeray—Roundabout Papers. The Thorn
in the Cushion.
