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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If praise becomes cheap , it becomes vulgar , and " Nothing has so much degraded literature from its natural rank , as the practice of indecent and promiscuous dedication .. tation from Achilles is an appropriate motto , for it is a ...
If praise becomes cheap , it becomes vulgar , and " Nothing has so much degraded literature from its natural rank , as the practice of indecent and promiscuous dedication .. tation from Achilles is an appropriate motto , for it is a ...
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Are you puffed up with love of praise ? There are dependable remedies which can restore you to normal , when with due ceremony the book is read thrice . Or art thou vain ? books yield a certain spell , To stop thy tumour ; you shall ...
Are you puffed up with love of praise ? There are dependable remedies which can restore you to normal , when with due ceremony the book is read thrice . Or art thou vain ? books yield a certain spell , To stop thy tumour ; you shall ...
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Such fate persues the votaries of praise . Johnson . Juvenal's depiction of Xerxes whipping the sea after his defeat at Salamis was memorialized by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes : Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his ...
Such fate persues the votaries of praise . Johnson . Juvenal's depiction of Xerxes whipping the sea after his defeat at Salamis was memorialized by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes : Fresh praise is try'd till madness fires his ...
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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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