 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 480 sivua
...writes Boswell, ' told me that Johnson wrote Rasselas that with the profits he might defray the expense 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 sivua
...written " in the evenings of a single week," in the early spring of 1759, in order "to defray the expense of his mother's funeral and pay some little debts which she had left." 2 Besides these and miscellaneous reviews and essays, he wrote prefaces to books, dedications, addresses,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 116 sivua
...written " in the evenings of a single week," in the early spring of 1759, in order "to defray the expense of his mother's funeral and pay some little debts which she had left." 2 Besides these and miscellaneous reviews and essays, he wrote prefaces to books, dedications, addresses,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 sivua
...written " in the evenings of a single week," in the early spring of 1759, in order "to defray the expense of his mother's funeral and pay some little debts which she had left." 2 Besides these and miscellaneous reviews and essays, he wrote prefaces to books, dedications, addresses,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 sivua
...Strahan the printer told me that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expenses 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 paid him twenty-five pounds more when it came to a second... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 256 sivua
...mother's funeraT) and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Si1; Joshua Reynolds that hp composed it in the evenings of one week) sent it to the press in pWtions as it was written, and had never since read it over. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 sivua
...written " in the evenings of a single week," in the early spring of 1759, in order "to defray the expense of his mother's funeral and pay some little debts which she had left." 2 Besides these and miscellaneous reviews and essays, he wrote prefaces to books, dedications, addresses,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 254 sivua
...told me," says Boswell, " that Johnson wrote it, so that with the profits he might defray the expenses of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of i5 one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 sivua
...told me," says Boswell, " that Johnson wrote it, so that with the profits he might defray the expenses of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of 15 one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 sivua
...Strahan, the printer, told me that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense g paragraph :— 44 It sometimes begins middle or...in words compounded, as block-head, or derived from Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid him twenty-five pounds more when it... | |
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