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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Page 34
Johnson pulls his motto somewhat out of context to fit the personality of the girl he is portraying , a girl who is indeed afraid of the wind and the woods . Johnson elaborates on the girl's fearfulness : . Thus our whole conversation ...
Johnson pulls his motto somewhat out of context to fit the personality of the girl he is portraying , a girl who is indeed afraid of the wind and the woods . Johnson elaborates on the girl's fearfulness : . Thus our whole conversation ...
Page 42
Rambler 42 is a letter to Mr. Rambler from Euphelia , appealing to him for advice and sympathy for a city girl who has looked forward to a ten week stay in the country , and after six weeks there , is completely disillusioned with ...
Rambler 42 is a letter to Mr. Rambler from Euphelia , appealing to him for advice and sympathy for a city girl who has looked forward to a ten week stay in the country , and after six weeks there , is completely disillusioned with ...
Page 84
Rambler 84 is a letter from Myrtilla , a sixteenyear - old girl who complains of the authority that her aunt , her widowed father's deputy , wields over her . Interestingly , Johnson left in his motto the lines which indicate that ...
Rambler 84 is a letter from Myrtilla , a sixteenyear - old girl who complains of the authority that her aunt , her widowed father's deputy , wields over her . Interestingly , Johnson left in his motto the lines which indicate that ...
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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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