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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... future , especially the eternal future . He emphasizes the value of retirement as an escape from enslavement to daily demands , addressing his thoughts especially to rulers and leaders who have great secular power . He tells them that ...
... future , especially the eternal future . He emphasizes the value of retirement as an escape from enslavement to daily demands , addressing his thoughts especially to rulers and leaders who have great secular power . He tells them that ...
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... future is " pliant and ductile " in contrast to memory , whose images are " stubborn and intractable . " However , the satisfaction derived from memory is less arbitrary than that which comes from dreaming of the future . Johnson quotes ...
... future is " pliant and ductile " in contrast to memory , whose images are " stubborn and intractable . " However , the satisfaction derived from memory is less arbitrary than that which comes from dreaming of the future . Johnson quotes ...
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... future has its limits . Presumably not all hopes for future fame will be real- ized to the extent of Ovid's , and even his fame is limited . Predictably , Johnson's final paragraph stresses the importance of attention to the duties of ...
... future has its limits . Presumably not all hopes for future fame will be real- ized to the extent of Ovid's , and even his fame is limited . Predictably , Johnson's final paragraph stresses the importance of attention to the duties of ...
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accept Achilles admits Adventurers total advice Aeneid Amores asks beauty begins Boswell Caesar classical context criticism Damasippus Damoetas death discussion Dryden Eclogues Elphinston epigram Epistles example fame faults fear fortune Francis girl Greek Greek Anthology happy Hippolytus Homer hope Horace Horace's Odes Human Wishes Johnson believes Johnson chose Johnson concludes Johnson's essay Johnson's Rambler Juvenal learning letter Lewis lines literary live Loeb Lollius London Lucan Maecenas marriage Martial Metamorphoses mind moral essay motto motto for Rambler motto Johnson Ovid Ovid's passions pastoral Persius Phaedrus Pindar pleasure poem poet Poetica poetry praise quae quid quod quotation quotes Ramblers total readers Remedia Amoris rich Roman Samuel Johnson Satire X Satire XIV says Statius story tells Thyestes Tibullus tion trifles truth Vanity of Human verse vice Virgil virtue warns wealth wife words writers young youth