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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Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful soil , fire in the hearth , freedom from litigation or politics , a healthy body and mind , freedom and congeniality in friendship ...
Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful soil , fire in the hearth , freedom from litigation or politics , a healthy body and mind , freedom and congeniality in friendship ...
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We claim those are also happy who bear the tribulations of life and have learned by mastery of their life not to reject their own burden . Let Stoicks ethic's haughty rules advance , To combat fortune , and to conquer chance : Yet happy ...
We claim those are also happy who bear the tribulations of life and have learned by mastery of their life not to reject their own burden . Let Stoicks ethic's haughty rules advance , To combat fortune , and to conquer chance : Yet happy ...
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Man's last day must always be expected , and no one ought to be called happy before his death and last rites . . But no frail man , however great or high , Can be concluded blest before he die . Addison . The dictum that no man should ...
Man's last day must always be expected , and no one ought to be called happy before his death and last rites . . But no frail man , however great or high , Can be concluded blest before he die . Addison . The dictum that no man should ...
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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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