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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... who can be too anxious to succeed , and recognizes that the artifices of authors are multiplied by their fear and their ambition . He thus reveals his awareness of the kind of deceit and corruption which infuriated Juvenal .
... who can be too anxious to succeed , and recognizes that the artifices of authors are multiplied by their fear and their ambition . He thus reveals his awareness of the kind of deceit and corruption which infuriated Juvenal .
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Fear is painful , but useless : if it be improper to fear events which must happen , it is yet more evidently contrary to right reason to fear those which may never happen , and which , if they come upon us , we cannot resist .
Fear is painful , but useless : if it be improper to fear events which must happen , it is yet more evidently contrary to right reason to fear those which may never happen , and which , if they come upon us , we cannot resist .
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With vain fear of the winds and the woods . Alarm'd with ev'ry rising gale , In ev'ry wood , in ev'ry vale . Elphinston . For Rambler 34 , Johnson used a motto from a seductive poem addressed to Chloe . The poet tells her not to fear ...
With vain fear of the winds and the woods . Alarm'd with ev'ry rising gale , In ev'ry wood , in ev'ry vale . Elphinston . For Rambler 34 , Johnson used a motto from a seductive poem addressed to Chloe . The poet tells her not to fear ...
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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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