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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... 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 passed in dan- gers , and cares , and fears , and consolations , and stories of ...
... 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 passed in dan- gers , and cares , and fears , and consolations , and stories of ...
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... girl who has looked forward to a ten week stay in the country , and after six weeks there , is completely disillusioned with country life . The motto , " slow and unpleasant passes time for me , " is appropriate to express the boredom ...
... girl who has looked forward to a ten week stay in the country , and after six weeks there , is completely disillusioned with country life . The motto , " slow and unpleasant passes time for me , " is appropriate to express the boredom ...
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... girl could hardly ask her aunt to ask her lover whether she was woman or still girl . The girl complains rather that her aunt wants her to let Mr. Surly , a neighbor who loves cock fights , woo her . She also is resisting her aunt's ...
... girl could hardly ask her aunt to ask her lover whether she was woman or still girl . The girl complains rather that her aunt wants her to let Mr. Surly , a neighbor who loves cock fights , woo her . She also is resisting her aunt's ...
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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