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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His task is difficult because he challenges his readers to admit their errors and also admit that the author is right when he is . Criticism , in the elaborate allegory of Rambler 3 , is the eldest daughter of Labour and Truth .
His task is difficult because he challenges his readers to admit their errors and also admit that the author is right when he is . Criticism , in the elaborate allegory of Rambler 3 , is the eldest daughter of Labour and Truth .
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Johnson admits that it is not easy for a man to know himself . Everywhere are found people overestimating themselves . If they imagine they are more virtuous than they really are , Johnson admits that they may not be hypocrites ...
Johnson admits that it is not easy for a man to know himself . Everywhere are found people overestimating themselves . If they imagine they are more virtuous than they really are , Johnson admits that they may not be hypocrites ...
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Which supporter of Lucilius is so tasteless that he won't admit this ? ... pioneer satirist Lucilius , who died in 100 B.C. The latter , Horace admits , is forceful in castigating folly and vice , although deficient in metrical skill .
Which supporter of Lucilius is so tasteless that he won't admit this ? ... pioneer satirist Lucilius , who died in 100 B.C. The latter , Horace admits , is forceful in castigating folly and vice , although deficient in metrical skill .
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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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