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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... comes from a long line of Tuscan aristocracy or because on review days , wearing his purple robe , he salutes the censor . The motto , which tells the young man that he isn't fooling his monitor , comes next . The monitor then tells him ...
... comes from a long line of Tuscan aristocracy or because on review days , wearing his purple robe , he salutes the censor . The motto , which tells the young man that he isn't fooling his monitor , comes next . The monitor then tells him ...
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... comes at the close of life comes too late to give much delight . " Thus every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come . " However , the future has its limits . Presumably not all hopes for future fame ...
... comes at the close of life comes too late to give much delight . " Thus every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come . " However , the future has its limits . Presumably not all hopes for future fame ...
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... comes to finish a project as it nears completion , make it possible to read the whole essay as an intensely vital expression of both satisfaction and concern over the fate of The Rambler . At this time he may have been aware of the ...
... comes to finish a project as it nears completion , make it possible to read the whole essay as an intensely vital expression of both satisfaction and concern over the fate of The Rambler . At this time he may have been aware of the ...
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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