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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Much less , of course , is 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 .
Much less , of course , is 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 .
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The motto for Rambler 9 , Quod sis esse velis , nihilque malis , comes from one of the best known of all Martial's epigrams , which consists of a series of conventional precepts . Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful ...
The motto for Rambler 9 , Quod sis esse velis , nihilque malis , comes from one of the best known of all Martial's epigrams , which consists of a series of conventional precepts . Life is made most happy by inherited wealth , grateful ...
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Johnson returns to a consideration of life's uncertainty in Rambler 134 , which uses as its motto a quotation from one of the best known and most beautiful of Horace's Odes . Horace quickly traces the changing of the seasons from early ...
Johnson returns to a consideration of life's uncertainty in Rambler 134 , which uses as its motto a quotation from one of the best known and most beautiful of Horace's Odes . Horace quickly traces the changing of the seasons from early ...
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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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