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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Led by the impulse of our hearts and by great , blind desire . Vain man runs headlong , to caprice resign'd ; Impell'd by passion , and with folly blind . Johnson . Toward the end of Juvenal X the poet concludes that man , led by ...
Led by the impulse of our hearts and by great , blind desire . Vain man runs headlong , to caprice resign'd ; Impell'd by passion , and with folly blind . Johnson . Toward the end of Juvenal X the poet concludes that man , led by ...
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Indeed , revenge is always the desire of a meagre , weak , and petty mind . 0 " But 0 ! revenge is sweet . " Thus think the crowd ; who , eager to engage , Take quickly fire , and kindle into rage . Not so mild Thales , nor Chrysippus ...
Indeed , revenge is always the desire of a meagre , weak , and petty mind . 0 " But 0 ! revenge is sweet . " Thus think the crowd ; who , eager to engage , Take quickly fire , and kindle into rage . Not so mild Thales , nor Chrysippus ...
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Adventurer 119 considers the question of human desire for acquisition froi both ides . Man may either acquire the wealth necessary to buy what he wants , or he may suppress some of his desires . Alexander the Great had considered ...
Adventurer 119 considers the question of human desire for acquisition froi both ides . Man may either acquire the wealth necessary to buy what he wants , or he may suppress some of his desires . Alexander the Great had considered ...
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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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