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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AII of these quotations describe some human fault or folly , and the mood of the poet varies from distaste and scorn to a good - natured tolerance . Johnson characteristically analyzes in a direct , serious manner human failings which ...
AII of these quotations describe some human fault or folly , and the mood of the poet varies from distaste and scorn to a good - natured tolerance . Johnson characteristically analyzes in a direct , serious manner human failings which ...
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His ambivalence can be seen in Rambler 66 , which contains an attack on philosophers who , not content to control the excesses of human desires and passions , try to extirpate them . Having written convincingly on human infelicity and ...
His ambivalence can be seen in Rambler 66 , which contains an attack on philosophers who , not content to control the excesses of human desires and passions , try to extirpate them . Having written convincingly on human infelicity and ...
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The motto for this essay comes from the very beginning of Juvenal's own poem on the vanity of human wishes , Satire X. Few , it states , know the difference between the good and its opposite . To be able to understand the limitations of ...
The motto for this essay comes from the very beginning of Juvenal's own poem on the vanity of human wishes , Satire X. Few , it states , know the difference between the good and its opposite . To be able to understand the limitations of ...
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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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