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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This ode is adapted by Johnson to a serious moral essay on the subject of anger , though neither the kind that could be placated by a teasing poem ...
This ode is adapted by Johnson to a serious moral essay on the subject of anger , though neither the kind that could be placated by a teasing poem ...
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I know these kind of misfortunes would be estimated by other persons only as common losses , and from such sensations they would conceive themselves great and wise men . I shall not determine either their greatness or their wisdom ...
I know these kind of misfortunes would be estimated by other persons only as common losses , and from such sensations they would conceive themselves great and wise men . I shall not determine either their greatness or their wisdom ...
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A ladies ' wit , he discovered , was not the kind which " by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in objects dissimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of ...
A ladies ' wit , he discovered , was not the kind which " by some peculiar acuteness discovers resemblances in objects dissimilar to common eyes , or by mixing heterogeneous notions dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations 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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