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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Miserable . bride of a bad marriage . ... Unfortunately , marriage as usually conducted has many disadvantages . The many marriages forced on women by their families are an abomination as Johnson sees them , but women left to their own ...
Miserable . bride of a bad marriage . ... Unfortunately , marriage as usually conducted has many disadvantages . The many marriages forced on women by their families are an abomination as Johnson sees them , but women left to their own ...
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The line immediately preceding this motto refers to the contentment of Medea with her marriage preceding her discovery of Jason's infidelity : ( Yea , and in all things serving Jason's weal ] Which is the chief salvation of the home ...
The line immediately preceding this motto refers to the contentment of Medea with her marriage preceding her discovery of Jason's infidelity : ( Yea , and in all things serving Jason's weal ] Which is the chief salvation of the home ...
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another so do single and married people envy one another . Thus the married praise the ease and freedom of a single state , and the single fly to marriage from the weariness of solitude . There are reasons marriages in England are not ...
another so do single and married people envy one another . Thus the married praise the ease and freedom of a single state , and the single fly to marriage from the weariness of solitude . There are reasons marriages in England are not ...
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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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