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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The subject of the ode is money , its use and abuse , and Phraates is the example of its misuser . The ode is addressed to Sallust the historian , who is called an advocate of using rather than hoarding money . Horace offers him advice ...
The subject of the ode is money , its use and abuse , and Phraates is the example of its misuser . The ode is addressed to Sallust the historian , who is called an advocate of using rather than hoarding money . Horace offers him advice ...
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He illustrates his argument with examples of puzzling allusions in classical literature , some of which have been ... Another example of obscurity in Horace exists in Ode III , 6 , in which a peddler and a Spanish merchant purchase the ...
He illustrates his argument with examples of puzzling allusions in classical literature , some of which have been ... Another example of obscurity in Horace exists in Ode III , 6 , in which a peddler and a Spanish merchant purchase the ...
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Juvenal begins Satire x , used in 1749 by Johnson as a model for The Vanity of Human Wishes , with several examples of the goals of human desire which when reached fail to satisfy . Johnson's essay is in the form of a letter from ...
Juvenal begins Satire x , used in 1749 by Johnson as a model for The Vanity of Human Wishes , with several examples of the goals of human desire which when reached fail to satisfy . Johnson's essay is in the form of a letter from ...
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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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