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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Persius , Satires III , 30 . I Show your fancy trappings to the crowd . know you inside and out to your skin . Such pageantry be to the people shown ; There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own : I know thee to the bottom ...
Persius , Satires III , 30 . I Show your fancy trappings to the crowd . know you inside and out to your skin . Such pageantry be to the people shown ; There boast thy horse's trappings and thy own : I know thee to the bottom ...
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Persius I , 116-17 . Sly Horace touches every defect of his laughing friend and , given access , plays around his heart . Horace , with sly insinuating grace , Laugh'd at his friend , and look'd him in the face ; Would raise a blush ...
Persius I , 116-17 . Sly Horace touches every defect of his laughing friend and , given access , plays around his heart . Horace , with sly insinuating grace , Laugh'd at his friend , and look'd him in the face ; Would raise a blush ...
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Persius , I , 106 . He does not strike the board , nor does he taste his bitten fingernails . No blood from bitten nails , those poems drew ; But churn'd like spittle from the lips they flew . Dryden . Persius ' first satire is a ...
Persius , I , 106 . He does not strike the board , nor does he taste his bitten fingernails . No blood from bitten nails , those poems drew ; But churn'd like spittle from the lips they flew . Dryden . Persius ' first satire is a ...
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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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