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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Johnson calls for sincere confession , sincere admission of error , and cites as examples the confessions of Caesar and Hippocrates , which he accepts as more credible than Ovid's admission that he can't stop loving .
Johnson calls for sincere confession , sincere admission of error , and cites as examples the confessions of Caesar and Hippocrates , which he accepts as more credible than Ovid's admission that he can't stop loving .
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Domitian calls a council of his elders ( together with a young confidant whom he later cruelly killed ) and asks them whether to cut the fish up before cooking it . His old counselor Montanus reconmends calling in the potters to make a ...
Domitian calls a council of his elders ( together with a young confidant whom he later cruelly killed ) and asks them whether to cut the fish up before cooking it . His old counselor Montanus reconmends calling in the potters to make a ...
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Johnson's Adventurer 99 likewise calls for more respect for projectors , as the scientists and inventors were called in his day , respect even for those who fail . He notes that in military and political affairs , Caesar , Alexander ...
Johnson's Adventurer 99 likewise calls for more respect for projectors , as the scientists and inventors were called in his day , respect even for those who fail . He notes that in military and political affairs , Caesar , Alexander ...
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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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