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 follows that thinking about a motto chosen in advance gave Johnson a start that made hasty composition possible . I Horace furnished 80 of the 239 mottoes Johnson used in both periodicals . Juvenal follows with 34 , Ovid with 27 ...
It follows that thinking about a motto chosen in advance gave Johnson a start that made hasty composition possible . I Horace furnished 80 of the 239 mottoes Johnson used in both periodicals . Juvenal follows with 34 , Ovid with 27 ...
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Lest the reader be carried away and leave the big city for good , Rambler 6 follows the gelebration of ... They opt for a change of scenery , but to no avail , for their vexations follow them . Johnson concludes his essay emphatically ...
Lest the reader be carried away and leave the big city for good , Rambler 6 follows the gelebration of ... They opt for a change of scenery , but to no avail , for their vexations follow them . Johnson concludes his essay emphatically ...
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Neither the river nor the trifling hour can stand still ; but as wave pushes wave , urged by its successor and urging its predecessor , so time flies likewise , and likewise follows . With constant motion as the moments glide , Behold ...
Neither the river nor the trifling hour can stand still ; but as wave pushes wave , urged by its successor and urging its predecessor , so time flies likewise , and likewise follows . With constant motion as the moments glide , Behold ...
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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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