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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Page 147
Johnson uses the lines expressing this Horatian principle to introduce the subject of letter writing , an art in which he thinks the English are deficient . He admits that the French are superior to the English as correspondents ...
Johnson uses the lines expressing this Horatian principle to introduce the subject of letter writing , an art in which he thinks the English are deficient . He admits that the French are superior to the English as correspondents ...
Page 148
letter itself or some trifle accompanying it : He that , like Pliny , sends his friend a portion for his daughter , will , without Pliny's eloquence or address , find means of exciting gratitude , and securing acceptance ; but he who ...
letter itself or some trifle accompanying it : He that , like Pliny , sends his friend a portion for his daughter , will , without Pliny's eloquence or address , find means of exciting gratitude , and securing acceptance ; but he who ...
Page 191
Johnson in Rambler 191 fits this Horatian motto very well into his essay , which is a letter to Mr. Rambler from the society belle Bellaria . The letter is the transparent protest of a willful girl impatient of her mother's attempts to ...
Johnson in Rambler 191 fits this Horatian motto very well into his essay , which is a letter to Mr. Rambler from the society belle Bellaria . The letter is the transparent protest of a willful girl impatient of her mother's attempts to ...
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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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