| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,"... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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