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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It can keep a man free from vanity over his own trifling accomplishments and restrain the public's adulation of certain of these accomplishments . The motto for this essay comes from the very beginning of Juvenal's own poem on the ...
It can keep a man free from vanity over his own trifling accomplishments and restrain the public's adulation of certain of these accomplishments . The motto for this essay comes from the very beginning of Juvenal's own poem on the ...
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Rambler 193 , taking as motto the next two lines in the same Horatian verse paragraph , makes ironic use of Horace's playful insistence upon the efficacy of spells , which are to be read thrice as a cure for vanity and love of praise .
Rambler 193 , taking as motto the next two lines in the same Horatian verse paragraph , makes ironic use of Horace's playful insistence upon the efficacy of spells , which are to be read thrice as a cure for vanity and love of praise .
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Aware that numerous writers before him and he himself earlier had warned of the vanity of human wishes , Johnson returns to the subject in Adventurer 120 , one of his most relentlessly pessimistic writings .
Aware that numerous writers before him and he himself earlier had warned of the vanity of human wishes , Johnson returns to the subject in Adventurer 120 , one of his most relentlessly pessimistic writings .
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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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