Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer EssaysA helpful reference guide to the mottoes of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays. The author provides the context for each motto Johnson selected and relates the context to the content of the essay to which the motto is affixed. Provides a unique insight into Johnson's way of thinking as as essayist in a specific and detailed fashion. An invaluable aid to students and scholars of Johnson and 18th-century studies in general. |
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... Eclogue II . In 36 , Johnson credits the pastoral with the power of renewal through contemplation of the order and beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Vir- gil's Eclogues . He spends most of 37 condemning modern imitations as ...
... Eclogue II . In 36 , Johnson credits the pastoral with the power of renewal through contemplation of the order and beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Vir- gil's Eclogues . He spends most of 37 condemning modern imitations as ...
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... Eclogues III , 56-57 . Now every field and every tree teems with life ; the woods now are leafy and the season is most beautiful . Now ev'ry field , now ev'ry tree is green ; Now genial nature's fairest face is seen . Elphinston . For ...
... Eclogues III , 56-57 . Now every field and every tree teems with life ; the woods now are leafy and the season is most beautiful . Now ev'ry field , now ev'ry tree is green ; Now genial nature's fairest face is seen . Elphinston . For ...
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... Eclogues II , 23-24 . I sing as Amphion Dircaeus used to when he called his herd . Such strains I sing as once Amphion play'd , When list'ning flocks the pow'rful call obey'd . Elphinston . Rambler 37 examines the modern pastoral ...
... Eclogues II , 23-24 . I sing as Amphion Dircaeus used to when he called his herd . Such strains I sing as once Amphion play'd , When list'ning flocks the pow'rful call obey'd . Elphinston . Rambler 37 examines the modern pastoral ...
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