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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... desire , seeks wife and offspring , but cannot know what the future knows , of what sort the wife and sons will be ... desires to purchase or sell . " Ironically , he pictures such an office as " a general mart of intelligence , " a kind ...
... desire , seeks wife and offspring , but cannot know what the future knows , of what sort the wife and sons will be ... desires to purchase or sell . " Ironically , he pictures such an office as " a general mart of intelligence , " a kind ...
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... desire of a meagre , weak , and petty mind . " But O ! revenge is sweet . " ยท In- Thus think the crowd ; who , eager ... desire for revenge is common even among professing Christians . His main argument is that the desires and actions ...
... desire of a meagre , weak , and petty mind . " But O ! revenge is sweet . " ยท In- Thus think the crowd ; who , eager ... desire for revenge is common even among professing Christians . His main argument is that the desires and actions ...
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... desire for acquisition from both sides . Man may either acquire the wealth necessary to buy what he wants , or he may suppress some of his desires . Alexander the Great had consid- ered Diogenes next to himself the most fortunate of men ...
... desire for acquisition from both sides . Man may either acquire the wealth necessary to buy what he wants , or he may suppress some of his desires . Alexander the Great had consid- ered Diogenes next to himself the most fortunate of men ...
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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