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 55
O A woman facing old age and death can act as badly as a greedy old landlord who orders marble cut for an elaborate palace he may never live to see ( Rambler 54 ) . The Horatian motto used for Rambler 55 is taken from the Ode addressed ...
O A woman facing old age and death can act as badly as a greedy old landlord who orders marble cut for an elaborate palace he may never live to see ( Rambler 54 ) . The Horatian motto used for Rambler 55 is taken from the Ode addressed ...
Page 65
You must live right , by all means , and especially for these reasons : as you condemn the tongues of slaves , remember that an evil tongue is the worst part of a slave . Let us live well : were it alone for this , The baneful tongues ...
You must live right , by all means , and especially for these reasons : as you condemn the tongues of slaves , remember that an evil tongue is the worst part of a slave . Let us live well : were it alone for this , The baneful tongues ...
Page 70
True , sir , to live I haste , your pardon give , For tell me , who makes haste enough to live ? F. Lewis . Martial addresses his epigram to Quintilian , whom he calls vagae moderator summe iuventae , a consummate teacher of wayward ...
True , sir , to live I haste , your pardon give , For tell me , who makes haste enough to live ? F. Lewis . Martial addresses his epigram to Quintilian , whom he calls vagae moderator summe iuventae , a consummate teacher of wayward ...
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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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