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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John Pomfret's Choice ( 1700 ) lists almost all of them . In his essay , Johnson is mainly interested in the attitude of man toward his daily occupation . His comments are closely related to another well known classical work , Horace's ...
John Pomfret's Choice ( 1700 ) lists almost all of them . In his essay , Johnson is mainly interested in the attitude of man toward his daily occupation . His comments are closely related to another well known classical work , Horace's ...
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You wonder I've so little wit , Friend John , so often to be bit , -- None better guard against a cheat Than he who is a knave compleat . F. Lewis . Johnson's Rambler 79 is a moral essay on the evils of suspicion , an implied approval ...
You wonder I've so little wit , Friend John , so often to be bit , -- None better guard against a cheat Than he who is a knave compleat . F. Lewis . Johnson's Rambler 79 is a moral essay on the evils of suspicion , an implied approval ...
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... by Henry and John Fielding as an employment agency and a registry for houses and servants . Johnson writes Rambler 105 in the first person , as Mr. Rambler . He tells of contemplating the idea of a universal register , " an office ...
... by Henry and John Fielding as an employment agency and a registry for houses and servants . Johnson writes Rambler 105 in the first person , as Mr. Rambler . He tells of contemplating the idea of a universal register , " an office ...
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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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