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 36
On the other hand , Rambler 36 credits the pastoral with the power of renewal of adults through contemplation of the order and beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Virgil's Eclogues . For a man of action like Johnson , who loved ...
On the other hand , Rambler 36 credits the pastoral with the power of renewal of adults through contemplation of the order and beauty of nature as celebrated especially in Virgil's Eclogues . For a man of action like Johnson , who loved ...
Page 66
... ugliness that was once beauty is most memorable . Johnson returns in Rambler 69 to a subject he had SO ividly treated in The Vanity of Human Wishes , lines 255-310 . The old man Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know That ...
... ugliness that was once beauty is most memorable . Johnson returns in Rambler 69 to a subject he had SO ividly treated in The Vanity of Human Wishes , lines 255-310 . The old man Hides from himself his state , and shuns to know That ...
Page 189
Not pretty , she is nevertheless constantly complimented by her maid on her 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 ...
Not pretty , she is nevertheless constantly complimented by her maid on her 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 ...
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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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