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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Experience on one hand reduces immoderate expectation of finding virtue in others and thus reduces consequent intolerance of their fault or failure . On the other hand , experience teaches one not to assume another's absolute depravity ...
Experience on one hand reduces immoderate expectation of finding virtue in others and thus reduces consequent intolerance of their fault or failure . On the other hand , experience teaches one not to assume another's absolute depravity ...
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Johnson concludes that all men are prone to be pleased by praise , but that few can be praised without falsehood . As for the flatterer , servility and corruption go hand in hand . Juvenal's text gave Johnson a keen stimulus to ...
Johnson concludes that all men are prone to be pleased by praise , but that few can be praised without falsehood . As for the flatterer , servility and corruption go hand in hand . Juvenal's text gave Johnson a keen stimulus to ...
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Turning to another Latin poet , Johnson points out that the line in which Nemesis holds the trembling hand of a dying man ( me tenuit moriens deficiente manu ) would never have been understood had not the poems of Tibullus been ...
Turning to another Latin poet , Johnson points out that the line in which Nemesis holds the trembling hand of a dying man ( me tenuit moriens deficiente manu ) would never have been understood had not the poems of Tibullus been ...
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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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