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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He differs from Horace in soberly questioning the value of fame instead of boldly proclaiming it ( Odes III , 30 , exegi monumentum ; R49 ) . He uses a motto expressing the anger of a girl who tore up Horace's verses by referring only ...
He differs from Horace in soberly questioning the value of fame instead of boldly proclaiming it ( Odes III , 30 , exegi monumentum ; R49 ) . He uses a motto expressing the anger of a girl who tore up Horace's verses by referring only ...
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He uses Horace's famous upstart crow quotation not to attack plagiarism as Robert Greene had used it against ... Johnson uses " o imitatores servum " from Horace to condenn Virgil's imitation in his story of Dido and Aeneas of Homer's ...
He uses Horace's famous upstart crow quotation not to attack plagiarism as Robert Greene had used it against ... Johnson uses " o imitatores servum " from Horace to condenn Virgil's imitation in his story of Dido and Aeneas of Homer's ...
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He adapts Horace's delineation of a fool or a rascal to a generalized moral essay , in which all readers , together with the author , can recognize their sometime selves . Human inconsistency is a favorite topic both for Horatian satire ...
He adapts Horace's delineation of a fool or a rascal to a generalized moral essay , in which all readers , together with the author , can recognize their sometime selves . Human inconsistency is a favorite topic both for Horatian satire ...
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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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