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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... beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Virgil's Eclogues . 11 ยท For a man of action like Johnson , who loved the city , relaxation and enjoyment of rural pleasures have a limited place in life . Thus he states that the scope of ...
... beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Virgil's Eclogues . 11 ยท For a man of action like Johnson , who loved the city , relaxation and enjoyment of rural pleasures have a limited place in life . Thus he states that the scope of ...
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... beauty is most memorable . Johnson returns in Rambler 69 to a subject he had so vividly treated in The Vanity of Human Wishes , lines 255-310 . The old man Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know That life protracted is ...
... beauty is most memorable . Johnson returns in Rambler 69 to a subject he had so vividly treated in The Vanity of Human Wishes , lines 255-310 . The old man Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know That life protracted is ...
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... beauty , and as a result , cultivates her face rather than her personality . Consequently , she learned the truth about herself the hard way , after she has tried by loudness and boldness to gain attention for her beauty . She thus ...
... beauty , and as a result , cultivates her face rather than her personality . Consequently , she learned the truth about herself the hard way , after she has tried by loudness and boldness to gain attention for her beauty . She thus ...
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accept Achilles admits Adventurers total advice Aeneid Amores asks beauty begins Boswell Caesar classical context criticism Damasippus Damoetas death discussion Dryden Eclogues Elphinston epigram Epistles example fame faults fear fortune Francis girl Greek Greek Anthology happy Hippolytus Homer hope Horace Horace's Odes Human Wishes Johnson believes Johnson chose Johnson concludes Johnson's essay Johnson's Rambler Juvenal learning letter Lewis lines literary live Loeb Lollius London Lucan Maecenas marriage Martial Metamorphoses mind moral essay motto motto for Rambler motto Johnson Ovid Ovid's passions pastoral Persius Phaedrus Pindar pleasure poem poet Poetica poetry praise quae quid quod quotation quotes Ramblers total readers Remedia Amoris rich Roman Samuel Johnson Satire X Satire XIV says Statius story tells Thyestes Tibullus tion trifles truth Vanity of Human verse vice Virgil virtue warns wealth wife words writers young youth