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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Her husband's only ambition is for success at the roulette wheel and at cards , and she is pressed to become expert , and learns the rules of the games from Hoyle himself . She becomes addicted , and when her husband decides to bring ...
Her husband's only ambition is for success at the roulette wheel and at cards , and she is pressed to become expert , and learns the rules of the games from Hoyle himself . She becomes addicted , and when her husband decides to bring ...
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Nevertheless , he believes that it might be well if the English did develop epistolary skills , " to learn how to become little without becoming mean , to maintain the necessary intercourse of civility , and fill up the vacuities of ...
Nevertheless , he believes that it might be well if the English did develop epistolary skills , " to learn how to become little without becoming mean , to maintain the necessary intercourse of civility , and fill up the vacuities of ...
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Tell me , if you should become a lion , what kind of lion would you be ? Priscus , you've often ask'd me how I'd live , Shou'd fate at once both wealth and honour give . What soul his future conduct can foresee ?
Tell me , if you should become a lion , what kind of lion would you be ? Priscus , you've often ask'd me how I'd live , Shou'd fate at once both wealth and honour give . What soul his future conduct can foresee ?
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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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