 Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Sivu 300tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1816Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sivua
...Strahan the printer told me, that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...since read it over\ Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley purchased it for a hundred pounds', but afterwards paid him twenty-five pounds more, when it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 sivua
...Strahan the printer told me, that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...since read it over. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid him twenty-five pounds more, when it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sivua
...Strahan the printer told me, that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...read it over'. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley purchased it for a hundred pounds', but afterwards paid him twenty-five pounds more, when it... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 sivua
...her funeral, he wrote his romance of " Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." According to his own account, he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and never re-perused it when finished. It is, however, one of his most splendid performances, elegant in... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 sivua
...funeral, and of paying some small debts she left. The cause gave inspiration and vigour to his pen. He told Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS that he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to press as it was written, and had never since read it over. Such a fact must raise our admiration of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 sivua
...that he received for the copy lool. and 25l. more when it came to a second edition ; that he wrote it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press...it was written, and had never since read it over. Hitherto, notwithstanding his various publications, he was poor, and obliged to provide by his labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sivua
...her funeral, he wrote his romance of " Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia." According to his own account, he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and never re-perused it when finished. It is, however, one of his most splendid performances, elegant in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 sivua
...little debts which he had contracted. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the CTCHings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it -vas written, and had never since read it over. He received for the copy 1001. ; and 251. when it came... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 sivua
...expence of his mother's funeral, and pay 1g^ some little debts which she had left. He told Sir 50.' Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week, 9 sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.' Mr. Strahan,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 sivua
...profits he might defray the expence of her funeral, and pay some little debts which he had contracted. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in...it was written, and had never since read it over. He received for the copy L. 100; and L. 25 when it came to a second edition. The applause with which... | |
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