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 concludes that " he who chuses earliest chuses best . " Martial concludes his epigram with a play on the words potes esse nihil , suggesting that the flighty intellectual will be nothing instead of something , and will be dead .
Johnson concludes that " he who chuses earliest chuses best . " Martial concludes his epigram with a play on the words potes esse nihil , suggesting that the flighty intellectual will be nothing instead of something , and will be dead .
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Winter comes and goes ; and the sick man may be well tomorrow , for Apollo doesn't always stretch his bow . Therefore , be valiant in danger and prudent in prosperity , the poem concludes . There is no attempt here at a sudden , clever ...
Winter comes and goes ; and the sick man may be well tomorrow , for Apollo doesn't always stretch his bow . Therefore , be valiant in danger and prudent in prosperity , the poem concludes . There is no attempt here at a sudden , clever ...
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Martial's lines conclude an epigram in which he addresses his idle book ( liber otiose ) asking it where it is going . To the Emperor ? ... I Johnson's essay concludes that pursuit of fame is an exercise in futility .
Martial's lines conclude an epigram in which he addresses his idle book ( liber otiose ) asking it where it is going . To the Emperor ? ... I Johnson's essay concludes that pursuit of fame is an exercise in futility .
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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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