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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... known of Horace's life than of Johnson's . The two , nevertheless , have in common a persistent emphasis on the importance of virtue . Horace , like Johnson , becomes the elder counselor to young men . In this role , both are moralists ...
... known of Horace's life than of Johnson's . The two , nevertheless , have in common a persistent emphasis on the importance of virtue . Horace , like Johnson , becomes the elder counselor to young men . In this role , both are moralists ...
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... known of all Martial's epigrams , which consists of a series of conventional precepts . Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful soil , fire in the hearth , freedom from litigation or politics , a healthy body and mind ...
... known of all Martial's epigrams , which consists of a series of conventional precepts . Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful soil , fire in the hearth , freedom from litigation or politics , a healthy body and mind ...
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... known and most beautiful of Horace's Odes . Horace quickly traces the changing of the seasons from early spring back to winter again . All life passes away . Moons repair their losses in the sky , but when we descend where pious Aeneas ...
... known and most beautiful of Horace's Odes . Horace quickly traces the changing of the seasons from early spring back to winter again . All life passes away . Moons repair their losses in the sky , but when we descend where pious Aeneas ...
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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