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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Mr. F. Lewis , who Johnson said " hung loose " in London society , and Sir Philip Francis furnished quite a few others . Thirty are from Dryden , 19 from Pope , 14 from Creech , and no more than three from any other source .
Mr. F. Lewis , who Johnson said " hung loose " in London society , and Sir Philip Francis furnished quite a few others . Thirty are from Dryden , 19 from Pope , 14 from Creech , and no more than three from any other source .
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Francis . . 1 For the third time , Johnson uses this same Ode ( III , 24 ) , which depicts the moral decline of Rome in Horace's day . Ramblers 132 , 194 , and 195 , in the form of letters from Eumathes the tutor , tell of the early ...
Francis . . 1 For the third time , Johnson uses this same Ode ( III , 24 ) , which depicts the moral decline of Rome in Horace's day . Ramblers 132 , 194 , and 195 , in the form of letters from Eumathes the tutor , tell of the early ...
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Francis . . Rambler 207 is written as if completely impersonal , on the subject of beginning and concluding projects that any human being might engage in . Yet the motto , with its imperative to let the old horse out of harness and the ...
Francis . . Rambler 207 is written as if completely impersonal , on the subject of beginning and concluding projects that any human being might engage in . Yet the motto , with its imperative to let the old horse out of harness and the ...
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| Title | Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer Essays |
| Author | Robert C. Olson |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819142352, 9780819142351 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays |
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