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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Page 87
1 Johnson notes that while good advice is often squandered and men perversely neglect it most of the time , critics blaming the depravity of those who ignore advice fail to consider their own faults as advisers .
1 Johnson notes that while good advice is often squandered and men perversely neglect it most of the time , critics blaming the depravity of those who ignore advice fail to consider their own faults as advisers .
Page 168
Then , as Londoner and practical thinker , he offers advice to so - called pedants . They err in trying to divest themselves too hastily of academic formality : They often make fools of themselves by trying to shine in society .
Then , as Londoner and practical thinker , he offers advice to so - called pedants . They err in trying to divest themselves too hastily of academic formality : They often make fools of themselves by trying to shine in society .
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This short ode in its entirety informs Adventurer 74 , in that the sapientia insaniens is the tendency of the complacent to follow conventional advice . Adventurer 74 is in the form of a letter from Perdita , a sensible young woman who ...
This short ode in its entirety informs Adventurer 74 , in that the sapientia insaniens is the tendency of the complacent to follow conventional advice . Adventurer 74 is in the form of a letter from Perdita , a sensible young woman who ...
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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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