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" 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... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an ... - Página 384
por Samuel Johnson - 1823
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London Vanished and Vanishing

Philip Norman - 1905 - 622 páginas
...was Rasselas. Boswell tells us that he " 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." Isaac Reed the Shakespeare commentator was also once a resident, having chambers at No. 11, where Steevens...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: 1709-March 18, 1776

James Boswell - 1907 - 626 páginas
...•debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of one week,t sent it to the press in portions as it was written,...and had never since read it over. { Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid him twenty-five pounds...
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1709-March 18, 1776

James Boswell - 1907 - 628 páginas
...debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of one week.f sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over. J Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid...
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Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning

Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 608 páginas
...expense of the funeral as well as to pay off certain of her debts he wrote his famous story Rasselas. He " told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it...it was written, and had never since read it over." The book was very popular in England and was translated into most of the modern languages. In 1762...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1910 - 602 páginas
...from Allen the Printer.—Hawkins. Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...was written, and had never since read it over. Mr. Strachan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid him...
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Dr. Johnson

John Dennis - 1910 - 126 páginas
...age of ninety ; and to pay the funeral expenses, and some little debts, Johnson wrote " Rasselas." He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it "...it was written, and had never since read it over." One hundred and twenty-five pounds was all Johnson received for a work that became sufficiently popular...
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Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London

Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 páginas
...wrote Rasselas in the evenings of one week, and so raised £100, that "he might defray the expenses of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left." All these things had happened, and Johnson had risen into fame and become " the great Cham of letters,"...
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A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson

William Prideaux Courtney - 1915 - 206 páginas
...discharge some little debts which she had incurred. He began the composition of this novel, finished it ' in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press...as it was written, and had never since read it over ' until 1781, and this rapidity of execution is said to have been due to the fact that all his life...
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The Story of Doctor Johnson: Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life

Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 páginas
...as The Rambler and The Idler : "Johnson wrote it, that with the profits'he might defray the expence of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he had composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 260 páginas
...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...it was written, and had never since read it over." 1 Life, p. 367. 2 Life, ed. Hill, i. 341. 3 The language suggests that the second payment was ex gratia,...
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