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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... Juvenal's motto ( XIII , 54-57 ) criticiz- ing youth for not respecting old age , and uses it as a point of departure on the peevishness and tyrannical behavior of some elderly people . More typically , though , he is in sympathy with ...
... Juvenal's motto ( XIII , 54-57 ) criticiz- ing youth for not respecting old age , and uses it as a point of departure on the peevishness and tyrannical behavior of some elderly people . More typically , though , he is in sympathy with ...
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... Juvenal IV , 70-71 . There is nothing which cannot be believed about oneself . None e'er rejects hyperbolies of praise . Johnson . Flattery is the subject of Rambler 104. The motto is from Juvenal's Satire IV , which attacks Crispinus ...
... Juvenal IV , 70-71 . There is nothing which cannot be believed about oneself . None e'er rejects hyperbolies of praise . Johnson . Flattery is the subject of Rambler 104. The motto is from Juvenal's Satire IV , which attacks Crispinus ...
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... Juvenal's great fish : but the mind once habituated to the lusciousness of eulogy , becomes in a short time , nice and fastidious , and , like a vitiated palate , is incessantly calling for higher gratifications . In anger approaching ...
... Juvenal's great fish : but the mind once habituated to the lusciousness of eulogy , becomes in a short time , nice and fastidious , and , like a vitiated palate , is incessantly calling for higher gratifications . In anger approaching ...
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