Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
iii. 320;
  Johnson consulted by them
    ‘a man who wrote verses,’ ii. 51;
    Colley Cibber, ii. 92;
      ‘a lank and reverend bard,’ iii. 373’
    Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4;
      a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2;
      young Mr. Tytler, v. 402;
        advises to print boldly, ii. 195;
        advice very difficult to give, iii. 320;
        willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402;
    put to the torture, ib.
    Project for the employment of Authors, i. 306, n. 3;
    wonders at their number, v. 59;
  judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2;
  language characteristical, iv. 315;
  lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6;
  modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333;
  obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2;
  patrons, iv. 172;
  patronage done with, v. 59;
  payments received: 
    Adventurer, two guineas a paper, i. 253;
    Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds’s Discourses into Italian,
twenty-five guineas, iii. 96;
    Blair, Sermons, vol. i, L200, vol. ii.  L300, vol. iii.  L600, iii. 98;
    Boswell, Corsica, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1;
    Critical Review, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2;
      Monthly, sometimes four guineas, ib.;
    Fielding, Tom Jones, L700, i. 287, n. 3;
    Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, L60, i. 415;
      Traveller, L21, ib., n. 2;
    Hawkesworth, L6000 for editing Cook’s Voyages, i. 341, n. 4;
    Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2;
    Hooke, L5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough’s Apology, v. 175, n. 3;
    Johnson:  See JOHNSON, payments for his writings;
    payment by line, i. 193, n. 1;
    Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson’s Letters, L500, ii. 43, n. 1;
    Robertson offered L500 for one edition of his History of Scotland,
iii. 334, n. 2;
      L6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for Charles V,
ii. 63, n. 2;
    Sacheverell, L100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1;
    Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214;
    Savage, Wanderer, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4;
    Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124;
  pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2;
  privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1;
  private life, in, i. 393;
  public, the, their judges, i. 200;
  putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237;
  regard for their first magazine, i. 112;
  reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25, n. 1;
  respect due to them, iii. 310; iv. 114;
  sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 333-4;
  styles, distinguished by their, iii. 280;
  treatment by managers of theatres, i. 196, n. 2;
  writing for profit, iii. 162;
    on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 430.
Authors by Profession, i. 116. 
AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 71
  not inherent, iii. 322. 
AVENUES, v. 439. 
AVERROES, i. 188, n. 4. 
AVIGNON, iii. 446. 
AYLESBURY, Lady, iii. 429, n. 3.

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