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 - الصفحة 300بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1816عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
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| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 954
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...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,... | |
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