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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Atreus slays Thyestes ' sons and then serves them to their father at a banquet in revenge for Thyestes ' seduction of his brother Atreus's wife . The play begins with two figures on the stage , the Fury and the ghost of Tantalus ...
Atreus slays Thyestes ' sons and then serves them to their father at a banquet in revenge for Thyestes ' seduction of his brother Atreus's wife . The play begins with two figures on the stage , the Fury and the ghost of Tantalus ...
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Domestic immorality is castigated early in the ode , which concludes with an attack on a greedy father and his effete son , whom we take to be typical of an unabashedly materialistic society . The lines of the motto refer to the ...
Domestic immorality is castigated early in the ode , which concludes with an attack on a greedy father and his effete son , whom we take to be typical of an unabashedly materialistic society . The lines of the motto refer to the ...
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1 Let my father load me with cruel chains because I mercifully spared my wretched husband . Let him send me away by ship to the outermost Numidian land . Me let my father load with chains , Or banish to Numidia's farthest plains ...
1 Let my father load me with cruel chains because I mercifully spared my wretched husband . Let him send me away by ship to the outermost Numidian land . Me let my father load with chains , Or banish to Numidia's farthest plains ...
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