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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It might be supposed that the frequent insouciance of Horace's moods would be repugnant to the sterner Johnson , and indeed such repugnance is sometimes evident . However , neither writer is so simple that we can identify Horace with ...
It might be supposed that the frequent insouciance of Horace's moods would be repugnant to the sterner Johnson , and indeed such repugnance is sometimes evident . However , neither writer is so simple that we can identify Horace with ...
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However random and casual some critics might now regard Horace's remarks in this epistle , it is evident that Johnson and many of his contemporaries took them seriously . Johnson uses mottoes from Ars Poetica for twelve numbers of The ...
However random and casual some critics might now regard Horace's remarks in this epistle , it is evident that Johnson and many of his contemporaries took them seriously . Johnson uses mottoes from Ars Poetica for twelve numbers of The ...
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If the critic holds up the light , truth will be evident . Since Johnson when writing Rambler 93 was in the midst of a series of essays on Milton's Paradise Lost , it follows that he could say that the dead are not exempt from criticism ...
If the critic holds up the light , truth will be evident . Since Johnson when writing Rambler 93 was in the midst of a series of essays on Milton's Paradise Lost , it follows that he could say that the dead are not exempt from criticism ...
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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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