...HASSELAS, • • • • • . . . PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. This work was published in March or //priM759: Dr. Johnson wrote it in order to defray the expences...was written, and had never since read it over. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards -paid him...

...that JOHNSON wrote it to defray his mother's funeral expenses, and liquidate some small debts that she had left. He told Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS, that he...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...

...that he received for the copy loot, and 25!. 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...

...her funeral, he wrote his romance of " Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.'7 According to his own account, he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to press in portions as it was written, and never re-perused it when finished. It is, however, one of...

...Strahan the printer told me, that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week,k sent I have done unkindly to my mother, and whatever I hare omitted to do Icintlly. Make me...

...the thoughts of one who has seen but little. THE HISTORY OP RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. VOL. vi. This work was published in March or April 1759. Dr....was written, and had never since read it over. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid him...

...Straban the printer told me, that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one weekr, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over5. Mr. Strahan,...

...which she had left. He told sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one weekr, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over3. Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards...

...over by him before they were printed. He once assured Sir Joshua Keynolds, that he wrote his Rasselas in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was published, and had never since read it over. The mode, in which he acquired this unusual correctness...

...Strahan the printer told me. that Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the erpense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts...it was written, and had never since read it over.|| Air. Straban, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds, but afterwards paid...