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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... ( Satire IV , 70-71 ) . Johnson generalizes upon the subject of flattery in terms unmistakably related to what he had been reading . On the other hand , Ram- bler 50 takes Juvenal's motto ( XIII , 54-57 ) criticiz- ing youth for not ...
... ( Satire IV , 70-71 ) . Johnson generalizes upon the subject of flattery in terms unmistakably related to what he had been reading . On the other hand , Ram- bler 50 takes Juvenal's motto ( XIII , 54-57 ) criticiz- ing youth for not ...
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... satirist Lucilius ( 148-103 B.C. ) , whom he calls the offspring of Aurunca ( Auruncae alumnus ) , after the town Suessa Aurunca in Campania , where Lucilius was born . Juvenal's Satire I begins with his question , " Am I to be a ...
... satirist Lucilius ( 148-103 B.C. ) , whom he calls the offspring of Aurunca ( Auruncae alumnus ) , after the town Suessa Aurunca in Campania , where Lucilius was born . Juvenal's Satire I begins with his question , " Am I to be a ...
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... Satire IV , which attacks Crispinus , who bought a mullet for six thousand sesterces , enough to have bought the ... Satire IV deplores the fact that Domitian did not spend his whole reign tending to such trifles , rather than spend- ing ...
... Satire IV , which attacks Crispinus , who bought a mullet for six thousand sesterces , enough to have bought the ... Satire IV deplores the fact that Domitian did not spend his whole reign tending to such trifles , rather than spend- ing ...
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