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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Horace's Ars Poetica : . By Samuel Johnson's time , literary critics for several centuries had taken Ars Poetica very seriously . It was regarded by numerous intellectuals all over western Europe as the single most important guide ...
Horace's Ars Poetica : . By Samuel Johnson's time , literary critics for several centuries had taken Ars Poetica very seriously . It was regarded by numerous intellectuals all over western Europe as the single most important guide ...
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Horace , Ars Poetica , 334 . 0 to say what is at the same time pleasing and suitable to life . And join both profit and delight in one . Johnson . Samuel Johnson's famous , or notorious , directions to novel writers in Rambler 4 are ...
Horace , Ars Poetica , 334 . 0 to say what is at the same time pleasing and suitable to life . And join both profit and delight in one . Johnson . Samuel Johnson's famous , or notorious , directions to novel writers in Rambler 4 are ...
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Horace , Ars Poetica , 105-06 . Sad words befit the dejected countenance , angry ones the face full of menaces . Disastrous words can best disaster show ; In angry phrase the angry passions glow . Elphinston . Horace's idea of decorum ...
Horace , Ars Poetica , 105-06 . Sad words befit the dejected countenance , angry ones the face full of menaces . Disastrous words can best disaster show ; In angry phrase the angry passions glow . Elphinston . Horace's idea of decorum ...
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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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