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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I was struck with the unexpected question , and awaked by my efforts to answer it . This allegorical dream illustrates the blind impulses and cupidity of man , and the vanity of human wishes . The question of what man must do is not ...
I was struck with the unexpected question , and awaked by my efforts to answer it . This allegorical dream illustrates the blind impulses and cupidity of man , and the vanity of human wishes . The question of what man must do is not ...
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Johnson's Rambler 155 is another significant moral essay which begins by considering the question of whether a human being can acquire self - knowledge and ends with a memorable consideration of indolence , a vice of which Johnson ...
Johnson's Rambler 155 is another significant moral essay which begins by considering the question of whether a human being can acquire self - knowledge and ends with a memorable consideration of indolence , a vice of which Johnson ...
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He took his motto from Ars Poetica , from a passage which states that the verdict is still before the jury on the question of who first composed elegaic verse . He extends the scope of the question to include the great unknowns of human ...
He took his motto from Ars Poetica , from a passage which states that the verdict is still before the jury on the question of who first composed elegaic verse . He extends the scope of the question to include the great unknowns of human ...
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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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