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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Virgil's poem displays teeming nature , feeding , milking , calving , a variety of living plants and animals . Nature offers , in Johnson's words , " a fresh amusement to those who languish in health , and repine in plenty .
Virgil's poem displays teeming nature , feeding , milking , calving , a variety of living plants and animals . Nature offers , in Johnson's words , " a fresh amusement to those who languish in health , and repine in plenty .
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Johnson's translation is quite literal : Time obliterates the fictions of opinion , and confirms the decisions of nature . . Authors aspire to immortal fame , but are usually disappointed , as the unread books in public libraries attest ...
Johnson's translation is quite literal : Time obliterates the fictions of opinion , and confirms the decisions of nature . . Authors aspire to immortal fame , but are usually disappointed , as the unread books in public libraries attest ...
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another . For wisdom ever echoes nature's voice . Johnson . Johnson used quite a few Horatian mottoes for essays on literary criticism , along with those he used for a variety of essays and ...
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another . For wisdom ever echoes nature's voice . Johnson . Johnson used quite a few Horatian mottoes for essays on literary criticism , along with those he used for a variety of essays and ...
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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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